Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Leginska has most recently drawn attention to herself by disappointing various managers in respect to particular engagements. But these exploits belie her fame which consists in traditional eminence as a pianist and more recently fame as a conductress. She is an English woman by nationality and studied first at the Hoch Conservatory and later under Teschetsky. She began touring Europe in 1905, although her first appearance in New York did not come until...
...another. Students would incidentally have freedam to become pupils of one master in one institution and of another in another, as was the practice in the Middle Ages. Now they are practically forbidden such migration by the attitude of collegiate communities toward those who thus admit superiority in any respect in others or the suspicious feeling toward those who come, having left other liege loyalties. In the Middle Ages young men eager for instruction, "glad to acquire learning without immuring themselves in monasteries," sought out renowned masters and went to them wherever they were, even following them from place...
...undergraduate before the fourth Monday after the opening of college in his Sophomore year, and that no pledge or promise from any Sophomore shall be accepted before the Friday following the fourth Monday. The value of this agreement depends upon each club taking particular care to comply in every respect with its terms...
...gray mind. But Harvard College owes its existence to that gray land, to that gray mind. For out of the dull, hard labor of founding a home, a church, a college upon the rugged, seldom cooperative soil of New England grew the heritage which is Harvard's respect for the responsibility of freedom. Perhaps that responsibility is gray to others. It cannot be gray to the Harvard student. The colors of accomplishment have long tinted the dulness with delight. This freedom--this responsible freedom is the distinguishing attribute of Harvard University. The Class of 1930 is now a vital functioning...
...human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitled them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." That phrase--"a decent respect"--is a very happy one. Cherish "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind," but never let that interfere with your personal declaration of independence. I say--begin...