Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...copy of "Yale and Her Honor-Roll in the American Revolution" has been presented to the library by the author, Henry Phelps Johnston...
...good but not nearly as good as it should be. We must work if we would win. The University at large must show its interest in the work of the teams, by attending the practice games, and thus encouraging the men to do their very best for the honor of Harvard...
...editor of the London Times once tried the experiment of taking the highest honor graduates of Oxford and Cambridge and trying to make journalists of them. I understand that in every case the experiment failed. Many college graduates have been found wanting, when tested, in those qualities which make the successful newspaper man. An early battle with the world often brings out in a young man that degree of "push," quick judgment and self-reliance which make him more likely to succeed as a reporter than one who has spent all his life in the study of books...
...transfer of the government of the yard to the students. To refuse this request of the Alumni, the Faculty would act in direct contravention to their established policy of allowing the undergraduates to govern themselves. If the request is granted, the men will feel bound in honor to do nothing which would tend to dishonor our University. Games with professionals would teach the nine to accept defeat with resignation. They would learn to control their feelings; and thus a better condition of affairs would exist when we meet with defeat upon the college ball field...
...mere pleasure: they have become hard, earnest work. Should the self-denial undergone by these men be set aside as of secondary importance? Who is to judge-a few individuals or the college at large? The prize offered to stir the athlete is not pleasure-it is honor; it is the satisfaction of being a vital part of a victorious team, and its attendant advantages...