Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Four different localities were consecrated to the Panhellenic games,' at which the athletes of all the Hellenic tribes met for trials of strength at intervals varying from six months to four years. The disgrace of being defeated in the presence of an assembled nation was as bitter as the honor of being crowned was great. Besides the drill-grounds and the public gymnasia-of which every town had one or two, and where the complete apparatus for all public sports was often combined with free baths and lecture halls-the larger cities had associations for the promotion of special favorite...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- "H. H. D.," who wrote about college honor and proctors in your columns, Wednesday morning, must remember that in the mid-years and annuals no individual instructor can depart from a rule laid down for all. It is only by being indiscriminatingly applied that supervision by proctors carries no possible offence. One-hour examinations are optional with the several instructors, and may, I suppose, be optionally managed...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- In your columns there appeared, a few days ago, a communication from Professor James commenting upon the evidence as to the moral tone of social responsibility at Harvard, which was shown in the objections urged against a proposition to form clubs guaranteeing the honor of individual members. Prof. James thought that these objections revealed a very low ebb of effective moral opinion...
...seems to me that an institution such as the one proposed before the Conference Committee-namely, a club which should stand pledged for the honor of its members-would be entirely foreign to the spirit of the present day. It was a necessary evil among the Normans of England and France eight centuries ago; but, to-day, we must act upon and through individuals. It is not surprising that many objections were found, but the most vital one was overlooked. Men who know themselves to be honorable would feel that they were degrading themselves if they should call to their...
...healthful tone of college spirit. The president speaks of the "trickery condoned by a public opinion which demands victory." This is certainly not a prevalent abuse; if it exists at all it is among a very small element in our college world. The spirit of fairness and honor, of which most colleges boast, would soon frown down any "trickery"; and, if that potent factor in a college world-public opinion-frowns upon "trickery," how can it exist? In spite of all this, however, we believe with President Eliot that there is much that is rotten in our athletic system...