Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sacramental idea has been so much bound up with the life of the Christian Church that it seems quite unwarrantable to omit it and reserve the other supernatural elements. In this respect, as in the belief in the immortality of the soul, there is no middle path to choose, for Christianity defies all attempts to compromise with any of the humanitarian or ethical codes. A man is either a Christian or a non-Christian in his beliefs...
...spent his strength and thought; as student of medicine, as companion-in-arms, as leader and co-worker in the physiological laboratory, as dean and foremost counsellor at the long table of the Medical Faculty; whether ally or critic, his words were always listened to with attention and respect and while he won everywhere new friends he never lost...
...many judges of the state courts and a delegation from the Boston bar. United States Marshal Murchie, United States Attorney General French, and Clerks Darling, of the circuit court, Mason, of the district court, Fogarty, of the circuit court of appeals, will also attend with their staffs. Out of respect for Judge Lowell all flags on federal buildings will be at half-mast...
...presentation of his portrait to the University. It is eminently fitting that this gift should have come from his pupils. In the forty years during which Professor Palmer has been connected with the University, he has guided and inspirated thousands, of students. As a philosopher, he has won wide respect and admiration; as a teacher, he has endeared himself to ten generations of undergraduates...
...critical year of the Harvard Dramatic Club. The victorious energy of the enthusiasm which creates such an organization is not unlikely to spend itself in the efforts of the first year or two; and when the impetus of novelty has gone, is liable to fall. But such fears with respect to the Dramatic Club will beset no one who last evening witnessed the performance of "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander." To make a Cambridge audience laugh at anything heartily means success. To make it shout with laughter at some things that are dear to it, is a triumph; and this...