Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...engage in political discussion on this campus or in the world. We, after all, are only students and couldn't possibly know what we're talking about. If we take this attitude, how are we ever supposed to fix anything? If we believe that during college we should automatically respect authority, what would make us think we would be able to challenge it when we leave...
...behalf of those students who would rather preserve the beauty of the Harvard campus than contribute to the grotesque scene in front of the Science Center, I beseech my fellow Harvard students to cease this destructive and costly littering. Find somewhere else to put your posters and show more respect for the beautiful setting that attracted many of us to Harvard in the first place...
...show respect for the true beauty of Harvard. Let us work hard and live hard and believe hard. Let us not take ourselves so seriously. Let us not talk of being responsible as if that means being complacent. Let us for once be who we are, not who we are told we should be. And for the love of God, let us poster wherever we want. For in doing so we do not deface the ground but rather inject our stodgy red brick surroundings with the wild-eyed enthusiasm of youth...
...Coalition argued that voting against the boycott was also a vote in support of students' rights, noting it would give them the choice whether or not to eat grapes. "We consider a vote to reinstate grapes to be a sign of respect of your fellow students' rights to be able to eat grapes through the school year," Kovacevich said...
...accept responsibility for [my] stupidity," said one of the rowers. "I do not accept responsibility for doing this to the people I respect the most...