Word: respects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Blank Book." These are used by men who take few and careless notes, and after a few days they get the air of a grocery order book. Above these rank the larger stiff covered note-books of all shapes and sizes, men using these are worthy of some respect, for, however poor their notes may be, they intended to do well at the beginning. Note-books in grades above these belong to the "aristocracy" and comprise everything from the ones marked "journal" on the back up to those bound to private order. The finest notes will be found...
...Studd, who is to speak in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening, we would say that we believe that what he will have to present will be exceedingly interesting to college men, and at least will command their hearty respect. Mr. Studd has visited Yale and Cornell and other colleges, and the papers from those colleges speak even enthusiastically of him. He is an Englishman, and was educated at Eton and Cambridge (class of '83), so that his sympathies with college students are naturally very strong. As captain of the Cambridge University Cricket Eleven, he won great distinction in athletics. "A typical...
...Harvard man could listen save with sincere respect to any words that Dr. Hale might say concerning the college. Dr. Hale's sympathy and interest towards Harvard are fully understood and appreciated. And yet we believe that hardly a student read his letter in the last Advocate without a sharp feeling of disappointment at his apparent misunderstanding of our position on the prayer question. Dr. Hale ought to be careful how he makes mistakes. He stands too high in the regard of the college to risk them with safety...
...good school would copy very fully, in at least one respect, its Parisian model; it would instruct its pupils well in the history of the diplomacy and international law, of which subject our leading statesmen are lamentably ignorant...
With all due respect to our sister college, we would ask her representative paper to answer a few questions regarding a course at Harvard. What college is it that stands head and shoulders above all other New England colleges in matters of requirements for admission? Why is it that a certificate from the larger preparatory schools will admit without examination to nearly every New England college with the exception of Harvard? Again, why is it that a year of extra study is necessary for admission to Harvard beyond what is required at other colleges? Who can "enroll his name upon...