Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Library Magazine, established in 1839, is a rival to the Brunonian in the honor of being the oldest college paper...
...When Marathon was fought," he said near the end, "and Greece kept free, each of the victorious generals voted himself to be first in honor, but all agreed that Miltiades was second...
...features of college life are found at Lasell. There is a Glee Club, the members of which sing the old college songs with all the vigor of their Harvard brothers and "cousins." Then, too, there are the societies. The new student who proves herself worthy of the honor is urged to join the S. D., or the Lasellia Club. The former is very, very secret. The gallant visitor, if his hostess chance to belong to the S. D., of course interprets the letters as the initials for "Seraphic Daisies," but if the hostess be one of the Lasellia Club...
...interest: "Williams may well be proud of the material which it will be possible to put into the base ball field with the opening of spring. Not only have we the men composing our last year's team, Safford '84 excepted, but there are several competitors who would do honor to any nine, and if fortune continues to smile, our record for '85 will surpass that of the past season...
...thank you for your gift of a copy of the bust of Henry Wadsworth longfellow, which has recently been placed, through your agency, in Westminister Abbey. The university welcomes this pledge of the literary fellowship between England and America, which the labors of the poet you have so honorably commemorated did much to promote. The bust has arrived in safety; and will be placed, with an inscription telling whence it came, in the library, among other mementoes of benefactors and eminent graduates of the university, and will there make known to future generations of students the features of one whose...