Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University is to be established at Wichita, Kan. It will be named in honor of President Garfield and will cost...
...this branch of athletics, Harvard has in the past been unexcelled, and we believe would be so now if all the men who are conscious of athletic ability would come out and help on the team. Where a man does his best for the honor of his college, he shows an honorable thing, whether he himself succeed or fail. If every athletic man would come out and work, the standard of our track athletes would certainly be raised. The freshmen are specially urged to enter their class meeting. A good freshman athlete is worth more to the college than those...
...Athletic Association of the University of Pennsylvan a gave an exhibition Friday at the university grounds in honor of William Byrd Page, the champion running high jumper of the world. C. W. V. Clarke walked a mile on rather heavy track in 7m. 18s. Mr. Page made a running high jump which broke his own record of 6 ft. 3 1-2 in. Tom Ray vaulted 11 ft. 4 in. Mr. Page was give a valuable gold watch...
...that a captain for the freshman eleven has been chosen, there should be no dearth of men, who will regard it as an honor to play on their class team, and consequently go at it in a way which will betoken defeat to the freshmen from New Haven. There must be no tomfoolery about practicing and everyone should work...
...them, financially, all that they can, and there is no reason why the tricks of the trade should then be ignored by college men any more than by other conscienceless sportsmen. But it is, and has been, assumed that these contests have been between gentlemen; that it was the honor of their university that they were seeking to advance in entering into them, and not that they were encounters gotten up for the purpose of filling the pockets, either of the oarsmen themselves or of their friends, with money obtained through fortunate wagers. Yet it is unquestionably the desire...