Word: respected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - It seems to me a thing greatly to be lamented that the Grand Stand question is to be given up. Why should Harvard who is so manifestly pre-eminent in track athletics be surpassed by Yale in this respect? Is it possible that we are calmly willing to admit that we have so little appreciation of the never equalled record of last year's nine, of the Mott Haven teams for the last six-years, that, for lack of a little energy to raise the sum of $4.500, we will not support our previous victories...
...university town, no one has endeared himself so much as the good doctor; his benignant glance, beaming through his gold spectacles, has been a perpetual encouragement to the students, and during the long period in which he was Plummer professor of Christian morals he gained alike their respect and love...
...latest of the great writers on this subject. "Mr. Cairnes," he says, "was an economic tight-rope walker; he could go with a cool head through airy spaces, where other men became dizzy or fell to the ground. And at the same time, he had the Englishman's sturdy respect for facts, with more than the ordinary Englishman's willingness to acquaint himself with social systems different from...
...past fourteen years among the students of Yale will not be forgotten. His work is its own reward. And if he feels that he should still persist in his present action, we trust that no effort will be spared to engage a gentleman who will prove in every respect a worthy successor...
...visited Rome, and was introduced to that polyglot man who spoke in fifty-eight languages, and who, in that respect, has never been surpassed by any one - I mean of course, the Cardinal Mezzofanti. In order to puzzle the man who used to puzzle everybody, I began to speak to him in the language of Little Russia. 'What language is that?' he asked me in Italian. 'Little Russia,' I answered. 'Well, come to see me again in two weeks' he said. Two weeks passed and I presented myself to the cardinal, who for two hours spoke to me in Little...