Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Investigation Committee. He read a long statement which "flouted" the Senate er "championed" Illinois, according to viewpoint. Illinois had elected him, the Senate must seat him, said he. The Senators had heard this argument before, from impartial Senator Borah, whose vote had been for seating Mr. Smith, out of respect to Illinois, then ousting Mr. Smith to punish political simony. After Mr. Smith, the Committee listened to a long-awaited explanation by Samuel Insull, potentate of gas, light and politics in Chicago. Mr. Insull, held in contempt of the Senate last year for refusing to tell who received...
This, the Second School wants to force the U. S. to cease to "domineer"?in Nicaragua, for instance (See NICARAGUA). Another prominent Second Schooler is black President Louis Borno of Haiti who demands "mutual Pan-American respect of liberty, independence and territorial integrity." Another is President Augusto B. Leguia of Peru: "The two Americas, different in origin, will (must) be equal in their final destiny...
Professor J. B. Munn '12, a member of the faculty of New York University, and prominent in library affairs paid the following tribute: "By his wide scholarship and remarkable executive ability Professor Coolidge secured for the Harvard Library not merely preeminence among American University libraries but the respect and admiration of scholars and libraries throughout the world...
...scholar that Professor Coolidge was prominent at Harvard. In 1909 he became Director of the Harvard College Library, and it is largely due to his great interest, and gifts as an administrator that the University has achieved its recognized primacy among similar institutions the world over in this respect. It is due to his instrumentality that Harvard acquired great collections on France, Latin America, the Near East. Prussia and Slavic Europe; and to him is also due the acquisition of a splendid collection of books connected with the Great War. Throughout, his administration of the Library was marked by great...
...time would elapse before the Crimson and the Orange and Black would be mingled in friendly rivalry. One can by no possibility have any idea how influential the Big Three has been throughout the country until he travels widely. By all college men of whatever affiliation there is a respect for the Harvard-Princeton tradition that is wholly genuine and unreserved. And the ethical standards which the Big Three devised years ago to the end that emphasis on intercollegiate sport be kept within bounds are the standards very largely that have been adopted throughout the country by the various collegiate...