Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...test of merit in the field. Any group of vigorous and agile young men, who attack the problem with sufficient intelligence, numbers, and zest, can swing a favorable crowd into their own enthusiasm. The present corps of captains has in general, these qualifications, with the added advantages of undergraduate respect and actual experience of playing. It is extremely doubtful that any competitive system, however well planned, has greater potentialities than the present arrangement...
Rather than be led to strain throats at the bidding of men whom they will not respect, as they do the present cheer leaders, undergraduates will resent the stimulation of artificial enthusiasm. The Council must recognize that the spirit of undergraduate Harvard is not exactly like that of other institutions; and that therefore the methods of other institutions will not succeed here...
Robert Beecher Howell, Senator from Nebraska, is one of the Progressives still within the Republican ranks in the Senate. He ranks next to Senator Norris in that respect. Last week, Senator Norris succeeded in having the Senate pass a resolution for an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission of the General Electric Co. (See Page...
...well knowing that he would have made but a scant meal for any one of them, but looking at the mountainous beasts, his rivals, with a gaze of bleak hauteur. Long silky hair clothed his bandy legs in elegance and provided him with a beard which would have commanded respect from a Saxon monarch...
...operating income in none of the great railway districts was sufficient to amount to the 5 3/4% on property investment mentioned in the Transportation Act. In this respect, 1924 earnings of Class 1 railroads over the whole country amounted to 4.35% on property investment, as against...