Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suspension, and two of the unfortunate upper classmen were invited to take a vacation. Their fellows thought this unfair, and appealed to the faculty, saying that they were also engaged in the disturbance. The faculty stood by their decision, and refused to reinstate the suspended students. To sustain their honor, as they claim, and to bring the faculty to terms, the entire senior and junior classes concluded to leave college, which resolution was carried into effect yesterday. It is uncertain what the result will be, though it is thought a settlement will soon be reached and the absentees return...
...University of Michigan has conferred its highest honor, that of Ph. D., upon Miss Alice E. Freeman, president of Wellesley College...
...observations on comets have been conducted with zeal and success - the assistants working day and night continuously when a new comet is discovered - so that several times this observatory has had the honor of announcing its orbit to America and Europe in advance of all others. The first accurate position obtained for a comet here is forwarded by cable to Europe, and has sometimes preceded the discovery of the comet abroad...
...becoming responsible for annual scholarships in the Harvard Annex. As the number of students increases there is a corresponding increase of applicants for scholarships. The institution has no endowments for this or any other purpose. Some one who has plenty of money might do much good to others and honor to himself by endowing the annex, and thus establishing the highest education of women on a firm basis. The institution was incorporated last summer as "The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women," and has a charter broad enough for all present purposes. - [Transcript...
...this rumor is unfounded. We can conceive of nothing more unfortunate than the revival of this custom at Harvard; nothing of late years has ever tended so much to hurt the reputation of Harvard in the outside world as the continuation of this harmful custom. To '85 belongs the honor of first abandoning it. Let not the charge be laid upon '86 of reviving the practice after once the precedent had been established to ensure its discontinuance. We feel assured that any attempt of this sort on the part of '86 would meet with the unanimous condemnation...