Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole, the race may be considered a great success. both in respect to the rowing itself and in respect to the complete arrangements which had been made; for this the officers of the boat club deserve credit. The new method of starting the boats by the tug whistle and pistol shot was eminently successful, and should be adopted as the permanent regulation for starting. The graduation of '83 will leave for next year three very evenly matched crews, and provided '85 and '86 improve in the way they are capable of, we predict another close and exciting race...
...best definitions of a university when he said that he would found an institution where anybody could learn anything. On the side of teaching, we have not enough teachers. At Harvard more is thought than ever of the importance of producing effect on character, of training men to respect themselves and rely on themselves. It used to be said that the college stood the student 'in loco parentis.'" The speaker did not accept this theory, inasmuch as there are various kinds of parents, and it was impossible from the very nature of the case that any college instructor would take...
...nation at large can certainly be congratulated that the wisdom of its one military school so far surpasses the combined wisdom and experience of the foremost colleges of the country. Perfect self-satisfaction, it must be admitted, is the surest test of progress and enlightened ideas, and in this respect West Point should be awarded the palm. These gentlemen in their report have passed some overt but severe criticisms upon our colleges, some of which are no doubt very just, but others it must be said smack strongly of that military arrogance and self-sufficiency for which West Point...
...entertainment given last evening by the Pi Eta Society was excellent in every respect. Mr. Belshaw, who played the title role in both comedy and farce, was inimitable, and showed a wonderful diversity of talent in portraying first the good-natured but vain-glorious Papa Perrichon, and then the rollicking Irish boy, who manages to get into mischief every minute, and to get out again immediately after, by use of his mother-wit. Messrs. Lord and Jack played the parts of the two rival suitors with excellent taste. The female roles were taken by Messrs. Fox and Cushing, the former...
With all due respect for the pleas advanced by Professors Byerly and Lanman of the Dining Association in favor of the retention of the present steward at Memorial, we must express our decided doubts of the wisdom of such a policy. That there will be considerable difficulty in the way of getting a new steward seems very probable. Indeed it may be found necessary, as has been suggested, that the salary of the steward be raised. Any addition to the ordinary running expenses of the hall is of course to be guarded against, but it seems very possible that...