Word: respective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps no Yale faculty member is so well known at Harvard as Dean Brown, and certainly none so universally honored and beloved. But respect for him cannot blind one to the novelty of this defense of an antiquated system. Does Dean Brown mean to assert that the first business of a college is to produce preachers? If he does, the CRIMSON can only say that it disagrees with him. And aside from this implication, is it not probable that incipient persons deliberately choose a college where compulsory religion is the fashion? If so, compulsion itself hardly seems the cause...
...gist of my remarks was that interest in and respect for intellectual life were essential in the college in order that it retain its vitality, and prepare men for the graduate and professional schools and for citizenship; that such interest and respect are not in American colleges what they should be. I said that this is not due to the fact that youth is naturally self-indulgent or indolent; that in time of war college students would not volunteer for a regiment that would be comfortably and safely housed and exposed to no danger, but would strive to get into...
...natural reaction of most students who read President Lowell's denunciation of them before the Association of American Universities is to oppose his charges with denials. The average student has somewhere in the back of his mind, at least a slight understanding of and respect for the real purpose for which he is in college, even though his academic record may not indicate it. This same average student, therefore, may resent President Lowell's speech as doing injustice to his intentions, even if not to his achievements. But why? To say the obvious, it is because scholastic glory appears...
...delegation of southern Governors, hot from the hearings of the Ways and Means Committee, where they had recommended repeal of Federal estate taxes, dropped in at the White House to see Mr. Coolidge, who agrees with them in that respect...
Harvard came off with a better score in the matter of sobriety, however. Although the Copley Plaza official would not give the Crimson a clean bill in this respect, he admitted that the Harvard men seemed less in need of stimulates than the Hanoverians. Who indulged the most, I can't say, but I know that the Harvard men carried themselves with more dignity than our visitors...