Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suggestion was offered in our columns Friday by a freshman correspondent, tending towards the uprooting of the university at large and the disruption of the college proper - in sooth, a very anarchical proposition. It was in fact nothing more nor less than a partial abandonment of the one time-honored "freshman elective" now spared to us. First in the series of changes came the abolition of the May-Day party in which we all used so to rejoice, then followed other deep-seated and revolutionary reforms, including the suppression of the horrible rites of Bloody Monday Night...
...member of the navy was unfortunate enough to receive an exhibition part he was honor-bound to resign and make room for a luckier class-mate. "This resignation," says a chronicler of those days, "took place immediately after the parts were read to the class. The doorway of the middle entry of Holworthy was the place usually chosen for the affecting scene. The performance was carried on in the mock-oratorical style, a person concealed under a sheet being placed behind the speaker to make the gestures for him. The names of the members who, having received parts for commencement...
...evening a pleasant and memorable one. May this coming reunion be in every way as successful as its predecessors. Dear old Mother Harvard has good reason to be proud of her children, as will be seen from the gathering of celebrated men who will assemble to do her honor next Monday evening...
...Professor Shaler speaks of the great growth of the smaller colleges of America, due to local, sectional, sectarian and pecuniary reasons. These small colleges, he says, although poorly equipped in laboratories and libraries, are usually strongly supported by a small, enthusiastic body of alumni. "'Tis a small college, your Honor," said Webster in the Dartmouth trial, "but we love her!" This sentiment and these men Mr. Shaler would attract to Harvard, by offering scholarships or presentations to be controlled by the faculty of the smaller college, and awarded to deserving graduates. The university could never, and should never, he says...
...from the Quaker city are said to have a crack team, and without doubt will give our team a hard fight. The Shooting Club's dinner, which was to have come off next month, will probably be postponed to the evening of the day of the match, in honor of the visitors...