Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think the House Plan very fine," he said enthusiastically. "Of course I haven't heard all the arguments against the plan but from the standpoint of an older man, who has had some experience with college boys, I think the plan a good one in every respect...
Objections to the Lampoon's satire are mainly that it is in poor taste, Quite possibly. But what is at issue here is something more vital than any question of taste; more vital than the respect unquestionably due Mr. Harkness for his munificent gift; more vital even than the "House Plan" of instruction. What is at issue here is the right of undergraduates to think for themselves, and to criticize the educational experiments of which they themselves are to be the subject matter. Their strictures may be ridiculously conservative. Undergraduate opinion usually is. But independent thinking must begin somewhere...
...heed their wishes. He knows the sting of the "nigger lover" cry, which was raised bitterly albeit futilely against him in the campaign. In his Elizabethton, Tenn., speech, he said, by way of promise: "I believe . . . that appointive offices must be filled by those who deserve the confidence and respect of the communities they serve...
...clock today President Lowell will speak in Harvard Hall on "Facts and Dogmas of Democracy." Known for years as an authority on government, President Lowell's rare treatments of questions of national or international importance are always listened to with respect by people who appreciate the value of opinion expressed by one not in the heat of world events. His lecture this afternoon should attract those members of the University who believe that their own destinies are not the only ones to which a college president may have...
...course. There is the need also of more comfortable dining rooms for everyone which could be supplied by their installation in any dormitories that Yale may build in the future. The establishment of the House system at Yale in the form of small quadrangles will in this respect come into violent conflict with the present social system, for the Fraternities as they now stand are, if nothing else, eating clubs. In this matter, therefore, there would have to be a definite, although difficult compromise...