Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...organization of national scope, maintaining adequate buildings adapted to its important work in the neighborhood of the larger navy yards in the country. Although the Third Division of the Atlantic Fleet has Boston for a home port, it is alone in being entirely insufficiently equipped in this respect. Over 10,000 different bluejackets and marines come here every year for a period varying from a few days to several months and in many respects the Boston Yard is the second in size in the United States. The present move on foot is to raise funds for the erection...
Military training makes for self-respect, self-reliance, consideration for the rights of others, comradeship, citizenship--in the fullest sense of the term...
Tomorrow all members of the University may without impunity and with a just observance of propriety appear in alfalfa helmets. While the announcement of Straw Hat Day carries with it no absolute obligation, it is hoped that as much respect will be tendered it as St. Patrick's Day and other national celebrations...
Since the choice of Sunday as the day for the regimental hikes has been criticised, should not a "decent respect to the opinions of mankind" lead us to declare the causes which have led to this choice...
...great many on both sides who would regret to see the distinction between this day and the rest wiped out, or even to see the American Sunday become indistinguishable from the Continental Sunday. Whether this idea is a prejudice, a sentiment, or a religious principle, it deserves our respect; and we shall not recommend the regiment to the public by appearing to ignore it, still less by appearing to ridicule it. We have better reasons; and, I trust, better manners. W. E. HOCKING...