Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stopping at each of the professors to answer what appeared to be very numerous questions. My name was one of the first, and, having given myself a final brace, I stepped proudly up to the table, conscious that I was the only American there and determined to sustain the honor of my country. I was, therefore, not a little taken aback when the individual with the pile of papers held out my passport to me and calmly told me that I could never enter the University on that passport; there was a mistake in it which must be set right...
...entered Harvard University, receiving honors on his examination for entrance, in the classics and mathematics; and after maintaining a high standard for scholarship during his course, he received the highest final honors in the classics, graduated the first scholar in a class of 182, and added his name to the list of those who in the past have attained like distinction, an honor of which any one might be proud. Subsequently he received appointment as head assistant in the Arnold Classical School in New York City, and a congenial and promising future seemed open before...
...NOTHING but leaves," as the second-year honor man replied when the proctor asked what he had in his sleeve...
...agents. Though Harvard cannot take the initiatory step in this direction, she can at least follow the good example which has been set her. By founding such a school as we have spoken of let her be among the first to try to regenerate and lend vigor and honor to our politics...
...with existing courses with advantage, one three-hour course being substituted for two of a less number of recitations. And we are glad to know that both these plans are now being followed by some instructors. The most important of the electives not susceptible of such treatment are the honor courses in Greek and Latin Composition. And we fail to see why these could not be connected with the parallel courses in translation with a twofold advantage in both decreasing the amount of work and increasing the results. After all these have been considered, there still remain, however, a number...