Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most difficult to stay there. The results are that the American universities no longer develop the best minds to their maximum degree, and many men who are not fitted for a scholarly life waste several years in attempting it, and often only succeed in losing some of their self-respect...
...Russian Nikolai Sokoloff, only conductor the Orchestra has had, who at last week's dignified housewarming gave a particularly eloquent reading of Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler's Evocation, composed specially for the occasion; and to Adella Prentiss Hughes, the Orchestra's enterprising manager, out of respect for whom John Davison Rockefeller Jr., a one-time Clevelander, gave $250,000. Financially the rest of the credit goes to Dudley Stuart Blossom, tireless campaigner who with his wife gave some $900,000; and to President John Long Severance of the Musical Arts Association who gave...
Aside from their value in this respect, examinations perform another function, in the urge they develop for work by holding a threat over the head of the undergraduate, Even grades, however faulty and inexact they may be, provide a certain visible record of achievement, which serves as a kind of compensation for energy expended. It offers an opportunity of a sort for a man to check up on himself, to give direction to his efforts. Of course, too often examinations bring a rigid limiting influence that makes for fact-cramming but that type of test is here, at least, happily...
Because of the grounds for the present resumption Harvard-Princeton relations are now on the soundest possible basis; friendship founded on mutual respect. It is true that at present football policies remain divergent, and that complete harmony awaits future adjustments. However, there is no reason to believe that these differences should be allowed to affect the rest of the program. Football must be left to a later date; hasty action at the present time is to be avoided. Harvard and Princeton men of today have the long-anticipated opportunity to meet again in sporting contests on a dual basis...
...trouble with the CRIMSON, we suspect, is that its editors awoke one fine morning this week to find their alma mater outdone for once in a matter involving undergraduate reform. Instead of haling Penn, a genuine leader in this respect, the CRIMSON boys tried to be sarcastic. It is unfortunate for them that their intended sareasm resulted in a sort of stupidity rarely displayed in their editorial columns. Cornell Daily...