Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...days ago the bowl-fight was revived at the University of Pennsylvania after an interregnum of on year. There was an ominous hush in freshman and sophomore quarters when Prof. Jackson reached the last batch of third-honor men. Several sophomores had donned their war-clothes under the toga virilis, which in this case may be truly said to have covered many defects. After the announcements were all over, those whose hearts were not unduly weighted down with conditions, rushed to the halls to prepare for the fray. At the east end stood a couple of sophs gazing fondly upon...
...world-of sixty million people at peace and without fear. He spoke of the unparalleled growth in wealth and material resources which has marked this century of American life. To get wealth, much that is equally valuable and far more noble has been sacrificed. Fame, renown and honor have become weaker motives than they formerly were, and men's energies have been bent on the acquirement of material comfort and physical well-being. And, unfortunately, men's energies are not like water that turns the wheel of one mill and then flows on with undiminished vigor to the next...
...editorials, with one or two exceptions, are devoted to a discussion of the athletic problems now absorbing the attention of the college. The Advocate urges every man to do his best to help on our college athletics; to make some sacrifice, be it money or time, for the honor of Harvard. Another point discussed is the restriction which the faculty has seen fit to put on our athletic contests. There can be no better place for the expression of the opinion of the college than in the editorial columns of a college paper, and the Advocate acquits itself well...
...present state of college opinion, of such students being sent to Coventry, dropped from the various associations with which they might be connected, and made to feel generally they had disgraced themselves in the public eye? It is all very well to talk about the individual's honor needing no guarantee. But the only place where it would be practically wise to ask for no guarantee would be a place in which individuals who had no honor would be sure of disgrace. Our college is I fear, not exactly such a place. To say the least, it is too large...
...happen to receive this very day a letter from South Carolina which contains a passage so apropos that I cannot help quoting it. The writer speaks of a student, of I know not what Southern college, who is in the house. "I asked him about the tone of honor among them. He said a man he knew from near here cheated in his Latin examination. It was known to the other men, who told their friends, and the fellow was dropped completely. He had no friends-all cut him-and at last he could stand it no longer, so cleared...