Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faithful, not famous, is the purpose that will make our lives not in vain. Be faithful in the least things. Each grain of sand helps to keep back the ocean. The great heroes are few, only two or three in a million. Our task is to honor and help them. "To you, students of Harvard University, because I shall never see you again, I shall speak these words of hope, encouragement, inspiration. Can you sacrifice pleasure and success to duty. Have you faith? If you have it, however small, you can move mountains. By faith Columbus, Washington, Channing, Garrison, Lincoln...
...than many realize. As anything to be dishonest must arise from some dishonest motive, it is hardly fair to charge every student with dishonesty who finds himself guilty of cribbing. Probably but very few of the cribbing class hope thereby to obtain an unfair advantage over their classmates. College honor would surely condemn a man who cribs so as to obtain a scholarship, or to gain a position on the Phi Beta Kappa. Such a motive would mark a man in the estimation of everyone, a thief and hypocrite. Cribbing cannot be prevalent among men who desire to become scholars...
...English and Scotch ballads by an American, too, - the well known Chaucer scholar, Professor F. J. Child of Harvard. The ballad lover confesses gladly that no one else has done such admirable work at our old popular ballads as Professor Child is doing has done. The book is an honor to its editor, and America. It ought to find its way into every real English library, and it will prove a mine of sterling ore to every student who digs into...
President Porter gave a reception Wednesday evening in honor of Canon Farrar...
...table of contents consists of stories, sketches, criticisms, poems, editorials and book reviews, choice morsels for the most delicate palate. It was announced that a feature of each number would be an article from the pen of some prominent alumnus, and common report assigned to Mr. Wendell the honor of contributing the first of this series. Such proves to be the case. The Monthly opens with a sketch by the author of the Duchess Emilia, entitled "Draper." We must confess to a little disappointment in reading it, and dared we say it, we would remark that this article...