Word: honest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spectator in these attacks upon other colleges, and are sure it is not that of the better element of Columbia. If the Spectator wishes to command any respect or retain any friends let it abandon sensational methods and this would-be facetious style of writing, and confine itself to honest, good-natured humor...
...last issue, the editorials deserve particular mention. They are frank and honest, and will serve to enlighten more than one student in regard to two questions closely connected with college life: the athletic question and the "coaching" question. From personal experience we know that there are scores of students who are almost entirely ignorant both of the status of the body which now governs our athletics and of the course of events which led to the establishment of that body. There are also scores of students who have never stopped to think of the evils which attend the system...
...them with coolness, courage and ambition, besides teaching them how to play baseball and play it well. We never did believe in the danger of contamination which our worthy Board of Overseers so recently deplored. Personally the men who play upon these professional teams are, as a rule, respectable, honest men who simply take this means of earning their livelihood. They do not dare to play in an underhanded fashion even if they are inclined so to do, for fear of losing their positions. Our nine cannot suffer by contact with these men and there is no doubt but that...
...great heart of Harvard University pulsating with its life of noblest activity, has been stirred to its very core within the last few days, by the appearance in the North American Review of an article professing to give an honest description of the habits of a certain class of men dwelling within the precincts of the University. Following as it does a series of attacks upon the good name of the University published in a number of daily papers, the article has aggravated the feeling among the students that Harvard is most unjustly dealt with by those who have...
...these trying circumstances? Shall we have an indignation meeting or shall we allow this latest libel to take its place with many others in the forgotten past? We believe that the best interests of our college can be served by assuming towards such attacks the utmost indifference. As an honest man can live through the worst of slanders, so the honest purposes of the University can survive the utterances of a few jealous individuals. The past history of Harvard is filled with successes. Something more than insults is needed to convince us that the tide has turned and that...