Word: honest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hospitability for new ideas has characterized the Yale men of the past, and I commend the Yale spirit to you in this regard. Yield yourself to this influence of the University. Be earnest, honest and fair-minded students. Manliness and the manly sense of duty is allied to this. It is the second element of the Yale student. The rules of the university life are justified largely on this ground; they are the expression of manly living. The gentleman of leisure, even of elegant leisure, is not so far as my observation extends, the manly...
...should say that he had been fairly judged and perhaps placed fully as high as he deserves to be. The whole is a good production, yet for enjoyable reading it might well have been given to us in more monosyllabic English. There is nothing so forcible in writing as honest, unaffected English words...
...present it is but speaking the honest truth, that there is very little true scholarship at Harvard, little desire to learn for learnings sake, and but very little respect for high scholarship...
...spoken. Go where you will and look at Harvard men and the work they are doing in the world. It is not brilliant, perhaps; it may lack the uncompromising vigor that the cant of our day describes as practical. But wherever you find Harmen in a body you find honest, self-respecting gentlemen, alive in rare degree to the best ideals of their time...
...that low craft and cunning so incident to the people of that country, which is so interwoven in their constitutions that all their art cannot disguise it from the World, tho' many of them under the Sanctifyed Garb of Religion have endeavored to impose themselves on the World for honest...