Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time rail at "pure Emmanuel". It held itself aloof from the rest of the University, and kept its own council and habits. When the other colleges accepted the inevitable and worshipped according to the king's command. Emmanuel alone refused to conform and probably because of the respect for Chaderton, was not severely penalized...
...best rule of action of life to control youth is the maintenance of one's own self respect. I do not see how a young college man, if he will give the matter thought and granting that the next war should be one of universal service, can maintain his self-respect if he fails to prepare himself to best meet that emergency. Presumptively, because of the privilege he enjoys, he should aim to be an officer, a leader of men. If he be an officer he must prepare himself for the most serious responsibility in the world--the least possible...
...which despaired of re-electing President Harding and wanted, therefore, to nominate Senator Johnson of California in his stead. "Both Johnson and Moses are going to Europe," says a statement issued by the National Democratic Committee, "in quest of ammunition to fire at Mr. Harding and his proposition with respect to American participation in the International Court. Confident that only an irreconcilable and a confirmed isolationist can win the next election, Senator Moses and his associates wish to settle the issue within the party before the nomination is made, so as to present a united party attitude to the people...
Although England now has 60 cruisers swifter than any in the American Navy, it does not seem that her superiority in this respect will continue entirely uncontested. Reports declare that the Omaha, one of the ten fast cruisers now under construction for our Navy, recently had a trial run. Using only half the number of her boilers and those at only two-thirds capacity, she traveled at 27½ knots-a speed which would take her across the Atlantic faster than any transatlantic steamship now running...
...than any other graduate schools. This practice, says Dean Sperry, "has been criticized as the beginning of the pauperization of the ministry, and as at variance with the whole trend of the modern church, which is trying to set the ministry upon solid ground of economic independence and self-respect. It is further felt", he says, "that the more generous and indiscriminate the scholarship awards, the less resourceful and desirable the type of man who responds to such an appeal". By awarding fewer and larger scholarships, he says, the school proposes to make them "goals toward which...