Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dilapidation or decay." The committee also predicated that the Hall would have "unity and simplicity of line and mass." And when the alumni presented the building to the University after its completion in 1876, the Corporation called it "the most valuable gift which the University has ever received, in respect alike to cost, daily usefulness, and moral significance...
...history concludes that "apathy must vanish completely and hard work must be recognized as the only 'easy way' toward gaining a general note of respect and admiration from the rest of the Harvard community...
...discover what it means to be a man. This has always to be done in personal individual terms. A college will be strong, therefore, only where those studies flourish whose principal value is to arouse such awareness and where they are taught with charm and vigar and win respect...
...that the emotional intensity has spent itself, it is clear that Harvard did not suffer, but grew in popular respect because of her refusal to make concessions in order to placate an irascible, if limited, public opinion . . . . Because the faculty, administration, and governing boards worked and stood together in this difficult situation prolonged during two years, a very precious internal health and sense of community within the University have been incalculably strengthened...
...plan in this respect merely adds teeth to the reserve requirements of the 1951 Selective Service Act. Under that act, all inductees or enlistees contract for an eight-year military obligation. After serving two-years a man still is supposed to serve six years in a Ready Reserve unit. In practice, however, there are no teeth in the act which can force him to attend training. The new bill would add compulsion by providing that men who refuse to participate in required training will be subject to loss of retirement or promotion benefits and to discharge under conditions "other than...