Word: respects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only do these examinations set strict limits on the relationship between tutor and student. I believe that they are capable of exercising a very unwhole-some influence in respect to the kind of person chosen to fill the position, thus further impairing the contact I feel to be so important. Most young men who are enthusiastically concerned to become successful teachers, and who may by good fortune possess creative imaginations of their own, will not be content to labor long under the shackles of the traditional conception of literature and of these new examinations which extend its power...
...respect to the sociological information collected in Lapland, Luther states that intermarriage between these people and the Norwegians is not satisfactory, as the children are often defective or imbecilic...
...Evans Hughes, last week, came an able address in which he displayed the general benevolence of the U. S. toward Latin America in favorable contrast to those occasional, specific U. S. acts which Latins call "imperialistic." Said Mr. Hughes: ". . . It is the firm policy of the United States to respect the territorial integrity of the American republics. We have no policy of aggression. We do not wish their territory. ... If we had cherished an imperialistic purpose we should have remained in Santo Domingo; but we withdrew...
Significance. Billions of dollars are concerned; an international trade rivalry as bitter as any clash of armies. Usually the great oil powers respect each other's prices, markets, territories. Shell is rival of Standard of N. Y. and the powerful Standard of New Jersey (a separate concern whose attitude in the controversy is not yet clear) for oil control of the world. The price war may foreshadow a far reaching, dangerous disagreement with jealous, potent British commercial interests...
...Victories were less numerous. Innovations such as non-scouting were not attractive. The good will and sincerity of other universities in their relations did not always seem to predominate. Harvard does not like the system and is abandoning it. She has a perfect right to her own opinion. We respect her, because to her the plan appears in a different light. With the passing of time, a broadening of experience, and a possible change of perspective, the present evils of suspicion and mistrust that now attend the non-scouting policy may be less pronounced...