Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back to Cambridge as described by one of the speakers in respect to my conduct as President, I may say that I recognize the accuracy of his description, particularly when he said that I was probably, in listening to debates at the college and in inviting my opponents, pursuing with a good deal of perspicacity a study of those men-- that I was making up my mind to see whether these zealous opponents were of the right stuff to be made professors in Harvard University. That is just what I was doing...
With feelings of respect, gratitude and admiration as great as theirs, the CRIMSON joins in the universal appreciation of a great Harvard man, and offers its most sincere congratulations to President Eliot...
...Europe might be pressed into service as an impartial jury on American literature. The annual flood of spring literature might first be directed to European maris for critical expurgation. What would sheek the American might not necessarily be considered unusual by the European: but if European progressiveness in this respect were as slavishly aped as some other European characteristics, such medieval measures as the Rabenold Bill would find little support...
...foreigners, but an Irishman!" The Pope chose Mundelein. To Chicago he went His position was "difficult." At a welcoming banquet 150 prominent citizens were poisoned by the soup. At the next banquet, the new Archbishop drank the soup first. And ever since he has grown, quietly, in the respect of a strident community. No archdiocese is more efficiently run. Its head has never committed a public blunder. The youngest to graduate, the youngest to become Bishop, one of the youngest to become Archbishop, George Mundelein will be the youngest Cardinal in the sacred College. And Chicago is the first...
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?The tired business man is unhorsed with a brilliant lack of respect...