Word: self-respect
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...spent so many years hoping and groping for a world of reason and self-respect. As a boy he had made many friends on the playing fields of Eton. As a 17-year-old soldier he was decorated for valor in World War I. Then he had worked hard as an agent in the expansion of the Empire, in the Congo and in Libya, where he sadly disapproved of General Rodolfo Graziani's ruthlessness. At home in Italy he was the most popular member of the royal family. In Ethiopia he wanted to simplify the Italianate bureaucracy along British...
...usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself. ... He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life...
...conduct on the part of any of its members which tends to damage its reputation. . . . Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring their conduct in open conflict with the university's freedom to go its way toward its lofty aim should, in ordinary self-respect, withdraw of their own accord from university membership. . . . No reasonable person would insist upon remaining a member of a church, for instance, who spent his time in publicly denying and denouncing its principles and doctrines...
...gulf which cannot be bridged by compromise. We believe that most educators and most laymen in America stand unequivocally on the liberal side. In fact, the Columbia president is so far out of line we wonder if, according to his own reasoning, he should not 'in ordinary self-respect' resign. If 'to use the prestige of a university relationship to undermine or to tear down the foundations of principle upon which alone that university can rest' calls for severance of the university relationship, Dr. Butler has most eloquently condemned himself." The Boston Evening Transcript, for Monday...
...Butler says: "Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring them in open conflict with the university's freedom to go its way towards its lofty aim should, in ordinary decency and self-respect, withdraw of their own accord from university membership." This suggestion neglects to consider the interests of the student, who after all stands to suffer most by such action. Whether or not members of the faculty will take up Dr. Butler's challenge, we don't know. The result is more likely to be that those whose conduct is in "open conflict" with...