Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class of '81 has always had a reputation for brilliant scholarship in the Classics. A larger number of Second-Year Honors were taken by its members than had ever been taken before, and no succeeding class has equalled it in this respect. Naturally it was expected that 81's Commencement programme would show a long list of Honors, and a number of Highest Honors assigned. But now the announcement is made, that but one man in the class has received the certificate of Honors of the highest grade. It seems strange that there should have been such a falling...
...cowardly insinuations of the Yale News against the honor of Brown and Princeton, as regards the championship, are taken only for what they are worth...
GLEE CLUB CONCERT in the Yard next Monday in honor of the Princeton Nine...
...patriotic duties be a wise and judicious thing. In the transept of Memorial Hall are the tablets which bear the names of Harvard's sons who fell in that bloody warfare for liberty and righteousness; they were placed there because Harvard justly desired to do her heroes the honor, however slight, of transmitting the memory of their heroism to future generations. Has she shown the proper spirit on the day when of all others some fitting token should be placed upon these tablets? Has she no time to pause a moment to offer up a few flowers at the shrine...
...with extreme regret that we learn that one of the instructors in Latin held recitations in two electives during the recent Honor Examinations, His reason for so doing was, doubtless, his desire that those members of the courses who were not taking the examinations might enjoy the benefit of the recitation. It would seem, however, on a little reflection, that the inconvenience and annoyance to which the majority of the men were subjected in having to make up an omitted recitation immediately after a continuous six hours of examination in the same subject would more than compensate for the advantage...