Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nation says in regard to Prof. Child's forthcoming "English and Scottish Popular Ballads": "Prof. Childs' qualifications for his infinitely laborious and scholarly task it would be superfluous to descant upon. His purpose, steadfastly adhered to for a quarter of a century, at last bears fruit which will do honor to American literature...
...corporation has voted that the Senior Exhibition be hereafter called the Palfrey Exhibition, in honor of the late J. G. Palfrey, who founded the exhibition...
...expedition of a certain Cambridge tradesman undertaken against the students of Harvard, as represented by the Co-operative Society, has become metamorphosed into a very troublesome boomerang. The Co-operative Society could not wish for better fortune than to be thus assailed. It has now become a matter of honor with every Harvard student to lend the society his heartiest support in opposition to this foolish attack upon its interests and their own. The Co-operative Society may be only an experiment, but as such the students of Harvard are bound to give it every opportunity and all possible...
...News attempts to extenuate the recent disgraceful action of the thirteen seniors at Trinity, in upholding the slighted honor of the "Grand Tribunal." It states that "a committee of the remaining members of the class are out in a statement in which they deplore the exaggerated accounts that have been spread concerning the affair, and emphasize the assertion that the action was intended solely as a punishment and should not be regarded as 'hazing.' One of the class had previously tested nitrate of silver upon himself, and had found it did no injury." Nevertheless, we believe that this committee...
...action of the gentleman, at Williams, in refusing the position of valedictorian, because he regarded it as an honor obtained from the marks he had received by a system that he did not approve, has called forth many articles on the method employed of distinguishing the different grades of scholarship attained by men at college. By some, the marking system is upheld, as the only means to prevent idleness and neglect, and as an unfailing incentive to "healthy, honest competition," as one contemporary has it; others trace from it all the prevalent evils that result from overwork and cramming, while...