Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said," says the Yale News, "that the Harvard team have done well; they have brought honor to their college and they deserve the high place which they hold in the contest for the championship. They tried no block game when they found themselves unable to cope successfully, if fairly, with our men; they played for the sake of the game, like well-trained athletes, and for all they were worth...
...government of Harvard University is taking steps to honor itself and an illustrious name by appointing Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Emeritus Professor of Anatomy. And with perfect justice to the honored and revered emeritus professors of Harvard, it will be safe to say that in no instance has such an honor been awarded to more faithful work or to a more accomplished professor than in the case of Dr. Holmes, whom Boston knows best as a Bostonian, and the world of letters as a great literary character, but Harvard, in addition, as the shining light of the first medical establishment...
...club has been started in the Law School, to be called the "Holmes Club," in honor of the instructor of that name...
...attended, from the commandant to the lowest corporal, when, in the midst of the game, the Indians turned upon the whites and butchered nearly the whole assemblage. Thus baggatiway or lacrosse is associated with history. The gentlemen who recently met to form a new lacrosse team for Harvard's honor, have no reason to be ashamed of a game which for many years has been the national sport of a people noted for endurance, agility and grace. The game was played on Cambridge common when Harvard was yet in its cradle; the old willows of Holmes re-echoed with...
Then said the young gentleman, "Gen. Butler will bestride his wonderful horse, and will canter over Cambridge bridge. You will have given him the knightly accolate, and the college will have a new honor in this last and most glorious doctor of laws...