Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wanted you to see what these worthwhile people think of you, how they trust you, how they approve of you and your works, how they ratify your judgment and believe in things you believe, how they respect your prudence, admire your courage, and how they stand by you as a national leader in whatever course you may choose to outline for your future course...
...football," the Director of Athletics continued, "where the feeling runs unusually high, where gates are open to the public and where newspapermen and photographers are admitted, a certain amount of information about a team is bound to get out. In this respect, Harvard is at a distinct disadvantage because the Boston papers give rather complete diagrams and pictures of the Harvard team...
...comparing the curricula of the various colleges in respect to the amount of space occupied by the ancient languages, it is very difficult to reach an exact conclusion. The reason for this is that whereas two courses, may be labelled, say, "Athenian Tragedy," one of them may take up twelve plays and another six: or of two courses in Roman Satire one, may include about twice as much as the other. Therefore, when one discovers that Princeton has 12 courses in Greek, Dartmouth 10, Yale 9, Cornell 8, Columbia 7, Williams 6, and Harvard 5, it is hard to draw...
...work and personal character of Mr. Horween himself. His quiet, unassuming, and business-like manner make him a difficult mark for the anvil chorus. There is always the feeling that he is working to the best of his ability on a difficult job. Above all he has won the respect of his athletic pupils. Harvard football, win or lose, can pride itself on having a coach who is a credit to the game...
...noble tradition of men who were worthy scholars and at the same time great teachers, Charles Eliot Norton left an influence on Harvard University which has yet to be dimmed. The study of the Fine Arts, to which he devoted his entire career, flourishes; and the respect for teachers whose humanity has not been crushed by their crudition still waxes, even though there appears at times to have been a temporary eclipse of such figures...