Word: respectfully
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Reform depends upon the awakened intelligence and moral sense of the community, and every youth at the University who desires to know his duty as a citizen in respect to a question which seems likely soon to become the most prominent subject of debate in our national politics should be present at the meeting...
...more than their due share of attention. Students in general wish to see athletics have just their due share of attention,- no more and no less. Now such students will heartily support any program of reform that recommends itself to their good sense, and it is just in this respect that the program which President Eliot maps out will find itself weak. However sensible the rest of the report may be, there are certainly some few things in it which will strike the great body of students as altogether too radical. The legislation proposed will strike the mind...
...thus turned this way a mistake in principle or any departure from principle would be most unfortunate. The case in point gives a decided confirmation of an important principle and even if it means the rejection of an excellent candidate, it is yet manly, straightforward action, worthy of the respect and the hearty support of the University...
...very long ago when scholars realized that they were in the wrong they were afraid to admit it for fear of losing their influence. Even the universities were often afraid of new learning and the discoveries of science, because, if these became generally known they might lose the respect of the people. Governments were afraid to have people know their rights because if they had known them the ruling powers might have been overturned. But now the great endeavor of all men is that every one should be educated and should understand the sciences and the art of government. Today...
...lecture by Mr. Irving. Mr. Irving's decision will be looked upon with the greatest favor by the students, and his coming will be impatiently awaited. And this for the simple reason that, although college men are fond of light opera and comedy, they yet have a deep respect for the better work of the stage, that work which demands fine artistic sense and a broader, nobler view of the possibilities of the theatrical art than is found in ordinary actors and actresses. There is a positive quality about all art that comes anywhere near perfection which commands respect...