Word: honest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little amusement for the college. At last our mistake is acknowledged and a change inaugurated. Fall class races are now to be revived with the expectation that they will develope new material. Some of the crews have already been rowing more than a fortnight so that a good, honest race may be expected. The freshmen, of course, must necessarily labor under a great disadvantage, but though their chance of winning is small they may show their worth by rowing a plucky race. To make the affair a success, the college must do its part, by showing an interest...
...Republican party has for twenty-five years challenged the support of those who desire an honest government, devoted to the national welfare. We believe it deserves that support today, and, therefore, to promote its success, do form the Republican Club of Harvard University...
...Story in many points, but we wish that he had put more stress upon the necessity of action within parties by private citizens. We believe that measures of final and permanent influence can best be handled through parties and not by means of spasmodic and local impulses. Sincere and honest private citizens can do their country more good by elevating the tone of parties than by manifesting a vacillating independence in politics. Mr. Storey practically admits this, but, accepting parties as necessary, he slurs over somewhat the real value of earnest work within partisan bodies...
...accident, sickness or stupidity get low marks on the mid-years. naturally such men want to know how they stand. The work of marking the books has got to be done some time, and it might just as well be done now. There is no such damper to honest, zealous work as being obliged to do that work in the darkness of uncertainty...
...ideal of things which are at trainable, is a paper which is honest, which does not palm off on its readers advertisements as news matter, which is not blindly partisan, which does its best to improve its readers, and does not pander to its lowest tastes in order to roll up a large circulation...