Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about the Princeton-Harvard game, namely, that immediate action be taken to return that game to its place as an athletic contest between friendly and ancient rivals, two venerable and dignified American universities. It is too easy to make verbal gestures, either of derision or understanding and sympathetic cooperation toward a common end; it is often too difficult to let such gestures give way before adequate and conclusive action...
...fine gesture but can lead to nothing definite. The reinstatement of Dr. Guzzallo is now quite obviously out of the question, and the report as published does not attack the system which makes possible such abuses of an educational institution, nor does it offer any constructive suggestion toward making them less likely in the future...
...years Harvard has adopted a patronizing attitude toward Princeton, culminating in the obviously undiplomatic incident of the early fall when Princeton was certainly treated in a cavalier fashion by those in charge of athletics at Harvard. This, of course rankles in the hearts of both Princeton undergraduates and graduates alike. Princeton for some time has felt it eminently necessary to remain a part of the Big Three. Even colleges must retain prestige. And Princeton has derived no little part of hers from the fact that she has long been included in the Big Three. Placing those two facts together, then...
Nearly half a century later, in the administration of President Edward Everett, it was restored, and has been there ever since. It was once more possible to be for truth and the Church simultaneously. The Church had changed, in New England at any rate; and men's attitudes toward it, at Harvard, had changed accordingly. Since then the religious sentiments of Harvard has tended toward loyalty to the kind of church that is not afraid with any amazement, regardless of the discoveries that may be made in the search for truth...
From this same habit of mind comes the change in Harvard's attitude toward the chapel services. Originally the family prayers of the college community, natural enough in an age when all respectable persons held family prayers at home, the chapel was for nearly two centuries organized as a regular Congregational church, which all members of the faculty and student body attended as a matter of course...