Word: respected
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...home by a base-hit of Dow's. This inning ended the run-getting for the Harvards, although several men were left on bases. The batting of Thayer and Leeds was especially good, each getting two good base-hits, while the rest of the Nine did fairly in that respect...
...whole, satisfactory. Being a cold, disagreeable day, it was natural that some errors should be made, and those that were made were mostly excusable. Ernst's pitching was effective, and he was well supported by Thatcher, whose throwing to the bases was a feature of the game; in this respect, as well as in many others, he has improved much since last year. Wright's play on first base left nothing to be desired. Leeds, at short-stop, played finely, and is evidently working for a good record this year...
...Advocate reviewer to have confined his unchivalrous and uncharitable attacks to Mr. Emerson's advancing age, to grandiloquent remarks on Immortality, and to hunting out obscure passages in these essays, instead of criticising the best Persian scholar in America; for therein he shows a censurable lack of respect for an acknowledged authority and a lamentable amount of ignorance and unfamiliarity with the subject. The writer is surprised that Mr. Emerson did not devote more attention to Omar Khayyam. Why should he? The fact that Omar Khayyam, previously almost unknown from the rarity of his manuscripts, has been recently exhumed...
...chivalry is gone." Were such dispositions and sentiments as our truculent critic's article shows common in our Senator's time, he might well have added, "The age of humanity, of courtesy, of urbanity, is gone." One of the worst and most common of American faults is lack of respect and reverence for what is old, venerable, and well deserving. At the risk of being old-fashioned and out of date, I believe in treating age with the utmost respect and kindness. To my eyes there is no more noble and venerable sight than an honest, earnest lover and benefactor...
...given to increase the fund; in Boston, beginning next Thursday evening, and in New York, a week from next Monday. The last theatricals in aid of the crew did not bring a large sum into the treasury of the H. U. B. C.; we hope in this respect the next ones will be more successful...