Word: respected
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gives them a perfectly proper feeling of pride, not unlike that which any man feels who is fortunate enough to belong to a distinguished family. Family pride is one of the best things in the world. There is nothing like it for keeping up a strong feeling of self-respect. If your name is a great one, you feel that it is your duty to maintain its credit. If it is not great, you feel it is your duty to make it so, or at any rate to prevent it from slipping into absolute obscurity. And I have very little...
...consider, nor do others generally consider, that he has done anything very much out of the way if his subscription is never paid. This, we submit, is not as it should be. A promise to pay is a promise that no man ought to break and still keep the respect either of himself or others. Once out of college, every one, no matter how dull of comprehension, will become convinced that he must pay what he agrees to pay or suffer the consequences. We have been informed, too, that the legs of the assistant treasurer...
...impossible to trace in these figures the operation of any rule connecting scholarship with the more or less free use of the privilege in question. Upon the whole, then, the fair deduction from the returns of last year, whether they are examined with respect to average results, or with an inquiry into individual cases, appears to me to be the same which was drawn by my predecessor from the first year's trial of the system of voluntary attendance, - that the influence of the system on the general scholarship of the class, so far as it is exhibited...
...letter we print from an old oarsman should receive much attention from our boating men We cannot agree with our correspondent in everything he says, but the crew will find many valuable hints in the letter. His remarks on rowing-weights, we must say, with all due respect, are out of date. The rowing-weight used in his time was very different from the one in use now. A thousand strokes a day at the hydraulic machines used by our crew necessarily brings out the pluck and endurance of the candidates for the boat. Pulling at an iron weight attached...
...heighten the favorable impression. But in time the artificiality and unfitness for real life of most Harvard men will be discovered by all, as it has been discovered by the gentleman of whom I have spoken. For the credit of our Alma Mater, therefore, may we show more respect for "digs" and, if possible, become imbued with a little of their spirit...