Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...policeman in certain critical cases, but you cannot with any justice say anything derogatory as to his bravery." He cited numerous instances of bravery under very trying circumstances and went on to say that the spirit of the force does more than anything else to build up a thoroughly honest police department. "Men respond to spirit, morale, call it what you will, more than to anything else in the world...
...above all, for the fearless maintenance of those convictions. The call to duty of the class of 1918 is not to be based on attendance at Chapel; it is to be based on the appeal to each individual member of the class to live up to his own honest convictions, be those convictions what they...
...degrees were called "first" and "second" degrees, that is A.B. and A.M. In 1602 the requirement for first degree was: "Every Scholar that on proofe is found able to read ye originall of ye old & New testament into ye Latin tongue, and to Resolve them logically, withall beeing of honest life & conversation and at any publike act hath ye approbation of ye overseers, & Master of ye Colledge may bee invested with his first degree." Upon taking his first degree, a student was called, following the practice of the English universities, "Dominus" or "Sir," a title used at Harvard as late...
...could return for his second degree, for which he must have these qualifications: "Every Scholar that giveth up in writing a Synopsis or summa of Logicke, Naturall & Morall Philosophy, Arithmeticke, Geometry; & Astronomy, & is ready to defend his these or positions, withall skilled in ye originals as aforesaid & still continues honest and studious, at any publike act after trial hee shall bee capable of ye 2'd. degree of Master of Arts." Moreover, he had to have receipts for all his College bills, and especially a "Certificate from the Steward"; nor could he hope for his degree without depositing in advance...
...introduction just a word to remind readers of the difficulty of the reviewer's task nowadays. He must sit down, bent on honest criticism, which is the purpose of a review, and see continually flitting before him the vivid phantom of "precocity mated with the unreserve of a female infant." Deliver us from its clutches, for we know not what...