Word: respects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sixth clause in the "Powers" reads as follows: "To prohibit any man who shows an indisposition to respect the recommendation of the Council, from becoming and remaining a member of any college activity subject to open competition." These words can be taken in only one sense--that the Council as a body assumes censorial rights in all undergraduate activities "open to competition." Consequently it would appear that in this clause the Council elevates its powers of jurisdiction over those of the Faculty, which long since ceased to perform as active judge in questions arising in undergraduate activities. Surely this sixth...
Cortainly, there is a definite place in a university for concerts such as those given by Mr. Whiting. The Boston Symphony and the Chicago Opera, with all respect to these most worthy institutions, do not present all of music, just as a collection of oil paintings does not present all of art. The Chamber Music played by Mr. Whiting is to the Symphony what an exquisite miniature is to a Titian portrait--and each has its lovers. To the lovers of Chamber Music played by Mr. Whiting offers gratis to members of the University the best, and thereby fills...
Everyone in any way connected with possessions of more or less backward people, of this or any other nation, knows that such possession carries with it racial problems of extreme difficulty, which have to be approached with respect for the legal and ethical rights of the subject people and also with due regard to the racial prejudices existing on both sides of the fence. That these prejudices are real and in some particulars vital, any resident of Mississippi, California, or Manila can explain. They require statesmanlike consideration, not "threeday" vaporings. These things may appear different in Dubois, Wyoming...
...know, furthermore, perfectly well that if the party machinery is against enforcement, it cannot be enforced. "I do not want to be misunderstood in this fight, although it seems difficult not to be misunderstood. I am against the liquor traffic. In that respect I take my Republicanism direct from Abraham Lincoln, who denounced the liquor traffic as the second curse of mankind...
...control was an excellent thing. Said he: "To ask this generation to go back to the helter-skelter method of having families is like crying for the moon." He could find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control, nor did he have any respect for "gloomy forebodings as to the break-up of family life...