Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...social service work done by Harvard men in the city of Cambridge forms an important relation between the University and the town, but one which receives comparatively small recognition. Particularly significant in this respect is the educational work carried on among the Lithuanians, Letts and Poles by the Y. M. C. A. Of the 105,000 inhabitants of Cambridge, 10,000, or about ten percent., are foreign speaking, and many more are foreign with American sympathies. Politically they present a very grave problem to the city with which it is impossible to cope before these people can at least speak...
...class of 1886 of Harvard College at this the twenty-fifth anniversary of graduation, offers to the University a gift as a token of the loving respect of the class and as a sign of its abiding faith in the efforts of the officers and teachers of the University in behalf of education, citizenship and character...
...Sexton. The game was no lucky victory. Heavy hitting combined with the cleanest sort of fielding only goes to prove that the coach has turned out a team which, through a gradual process of development, has come to play as a unit. Dr. Sexton has earned the respect and personal regard of every man on the squad. 'To say that Harvard as a whole congratulates him is needless...
...with mere externals but with the habitual temper and attitude of men. It should contain two elements, loyalty to one's colleagues, and loyalty to the standards of the profession. Loyalty on the part of a minister to his colleagues in the ministry is absolutely essential, and respect should be paid especially to the older men of the profession. The true professional spirit includes a determination to maintain both the intellectual and the moral standards that should exist in the clergy...
...lack of prestige and influence of the clergy today is the rivalry that exists among the great number of different sects in this country. It is true, however, that today our educational institutions are laying very little stress on denomination, and even the churches themselves have very much more respect for one another than ever before. The work of making still closer and more potent the co-operation among the sects is one of the greatest opportunities that lies before the clergy today, and in taking advantage of this opportunity the clergy may hope to regain power to a degree...