Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ridiculing many of the seemingly foolish usages of smaller colleges we are over anxious to be free from anything similar. An example of the better sort of tradition is that which some years ago prompted undergraduates to remove their hats when passing through the Newell Gate, out of respect for the man whose name it bears...
...Norton upon his eightieth birthday, and an ode, "The Founder," by R. E. Rogers. Mr. Rogers sees in the eyes of John Harvard, as they look out upon the Delta, a vision of the College which bears his name, and interprets for us the thoughts of the Founder with respect both to the past and to the future. He well brings out the Puritan loyalty to England at the very moment of the Separatists' revolt against the worldliness of the Established Church; but he seems unduly to emphasize the political aspect of their emigration; and he tends to make Harvard...
...abuse seems to be in the brutality of the game of football, a point which occurs as often and even more pointedly than does the danger of the Boylston Street bridge. Apparently in the mind of the average layman the new rules have not been entirely successful in this respect at least...
...urge men who have been treated with obvious unfairness to refrain mistakes. But if every malcontent would weight his claims thoughtfully before presenting them, and act upon the promptings of his sense of justice, he would save the time of the persecuted officer, as well as his own self-respect...
...defense, the two teams were about evenly matched. The Harvard line showed great improvement in this respect, and from tackle to tackle, the Dartmouth backs were unable to gain with any regularity. Outside of tackle and around end, however, Captain Glaze drove his backs for Dartmouth's steadiest gains. On the other hand, the Dartmouth line was almost impregnable to the University backs, and as the game progressed Harvard's gains became more and more intermittent...