Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Apropos of Cornell's ill success at the Mott Haven games and her inability to acquire honor and win events, the Cornell Sun prints the following...
About thirty-five hundred persons witnessed the game. Mr. Fulmer was the umpire and there was much fault to be found with his umpiring. The Glee and Banjo Clubs gave a concert in the yard in honor of Yale, but the Yale boys were compelled to leave for Boston immediately after the game. The score...
...years it has been the custom of our Glee Club to give a concert in the yard to the members of the Princeton nine in the evening after the annual game between Princeton and Harvard at Cambridge. It has been a matter of wonder to many why a like honor has never been paid to the Yale nine. There is no apparent reason why the nine from one of our sister colleges should be more honored than that from the other. The distinction that has been made every year probably arose from some accidental circumstances, and from this has grown...
...purpose of the club to sing in the yard to-night if Harvard is victorious. Let them sing in any event, whether Harvard wins or Yale; let the concert be in honor of the Yale nine...
...humanity which is neither degraded nor trivial, but which, though of necessity marked with error, is nevertheless essentially noble and high. We know of no instance in fiction where a love between man and woman, which could not exist and be given expression to within the bounds of honor, has been depicted with the quiet strength and delicacy, and with the entire absence of anything vicious or demoralizing, that characterizes the history of Margaret and Harold. Without sentimentality, one pities the pair, and looks on them leading their separate, sorrowful lives as creatures of an inevitable fate - too strong...