Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...useful, except in these colleges which still retain the old prescribed system can hardly be necessary and should at once give way before the new order of college study. In a system which has abolished that course of instruction of which the valedictory is, the index and highest honor, such an honor is not only useless, but calculated to raise censure upon the system itself. The day of the valedictorian who stands up as an exponent of the system in which he has been trained, has, at least, among those colleges which pretend to a university training, passed away...
...memorable "tie game" at New York-and lost. This year the championship is ours, beyond all uncertainty and doubt. Let us appreciate our good fortune, then, at its true value, and feel fitting gratitude to Captain Winslow and his nine, by whose faithful and untiring work the honor that has now become ours has been...
...they give what money they promised to give. The amount unpaid, we understand, is amply sufficient to settle all outstanding bills, and the management of the nine has a right to rely upon its payment. Every freshman who has not paid his subscription should make it a point of honor to do so before leaving Cambridge...
...colleges of our land, and in this way, by united action, the tendency to degrade the good old meaning that has been attached to these former exclusive titles of learning can be corrected, and in the end, a standard for conferring the higher degrees established, that will reflect additional honor on the giver, and on the recipient...
...neglects his studies altogether. The former's science of navigation may be excellent, but if he does not know the sun when he sees it, his ship will fail of a successful voyage all the same. It is for this reason that the names most prominent on the honor list during the college course are so seldom heard of after graduation. The man who will succeed and whose training will do the greatest good to himself and to others is the man who, while not neglectful of his studies, adds to this an appreciation of the practical experience which...