Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even today the transition from the Yard to the Houses is one of the major causes of the sophomore slump. "Self-respect," Master John Finley of Eliot House said," is a precondition of friendship. Everyone flees the House initially and tries to find himself elsewhere. Toward the end of the sophomore year there is a reflux to the House-Eliot is a huge success for juniors and seniors...
...Quad. But the landlords were not so ready to give up what was a fairly profitable commercial venture. The building's very location on the dormitory quadrangle ideally suited the needs of young couples looking for baby sitters. And, according to legend at least, apartments in strategic locations with respect to Radcliffe were earmarked for lecherous old bachelors willing to pay high prices for a choice view...
...form an obstructionist minority. They, and the present opponents of effective civil rights legislation, fail to see that minority rights are those protected by the Constitution; the freedom of a minority to debate is not the privilege to annul the will of the majority, when that will would respect minority rights...
...obtaining proper suffrage, education, housing, and employment for Negroes. They infer that effective civil-rights legislation is not really so necessary, warning liberals not to conceive whatever legislation does get through as a salvation. Since the Civil War liberals have learned that opponents of civil rights would not respect even so high an authority as an amendment to the Constitution. That there exist inadequate laws which purport to effect Constitutional strictures is no argument against adequate...
...after four years of sweating Harvard sweat, it will still mean the same thing. Of course, when I pin my diploma on my shirt, the white world won't act like it doesn't respect me. I'll still be "the nigger" but, when I show my trophy, the world will bend to necessity. It's so funny. There'll be no real necessity--just habit. I might even, some day, become Ralph Bunche or, in forty years, Bobby Kennedy. But then, I'll still be nigger to the man on the train. Yes, it's funny, pathetically funny...