Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...purpose of the society is to encourage effective and sincere public speaking, and in this respect it occupies the same position with regard to debating and public address that the Phi Beta Kappa society occupies toward scholarship. Membership in the society is limited to those who have actually participated in an intercollegiate debating or public speaking contest. The society was nationally organized four years ago and now has twenty-one chapters including Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Brown, George Washington University, University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan...
...MORNING PRAYERS. Rev. C. E. Park. Subject: "Penitence and Self-Respect." Appleton Chapel...
...anticipation of his return to this country is a very fitting honor to this country is a very fitting honor to the graduate who of Harvard men now living has perhaps done most to bring honor to his University. His active career has brought public service into greater respect among those citizens best fitted to undertake it, and has introduced, not only into public service but into everyday life of the people, new standards of duty and efficiency...
...have heard much recently of sanity in athletics, of growing respect for the scholar, and of contempt for the loafer. It is impossible to measure exactly the growth of such public opinion, if it exists. We are still some way from the time when the "H" of a major team and a Phi Beta Kappa key will be esteemed of equal value. But the very indifference which attends the ending of the free elective system is evidence that such an opinion is being formed. In the good old days when Harvard was but a College, all men of necessity were...