Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...closing its editorial says: "There are more euphonious terms than 'crawl,' but none more expressive," and then concludes by adding: "Whatever may be said as to the wisdom of the captain, the chief fault lies, without doubt, with those men who did not care enough for the athletic honor of their college to forego the little pleasure of which an early return would deprive them. The longer they stay at Yale, the better will they learn that athletic success is the result of individual hard work and self-denial...
...Yale Glee Club is to have the honor of giving a concert in Hartford, in connection with Madame Camilla Urso, violinist, Mme, Chatterton Bohrer, harpist; A. L. King, tenor...
COLLEGE BONFIRE FOR CLEVELAND-The Yale students built a large bonfire on the campus at the corner of Chapel and College streets in honor of Cleveland's election. The gales and fences were pretty thoroughly taken from the neighboring streets to keep the fire going. Complaint was made to the Faculty and police, but in the universal feeling of joy over Blaine's defeat the enthusiastic action of the students met with approbation-[Times...
...indulge in expensive sprees, and go to bed regularly at 2 P. M." as he somewhat vulgarly puts it, that wish to do away with compulsory prayers. On the contrary, it is the desire of those who have the interests of the college most at heart, that, for the honor of Harvard, the present system be given up. If the only arguments to be adduced in favor of compulsory prayers were such as the pictorial ones the writer gives, he by them would have been abolished two centuries...
...Emperor Francis Joseph. An eye witness briefly describes the ceremonies as follows:-"The ceremony was simple and brief, and chiefly of interest as marking the beginning of the second half thousand years in the life of the institution, and as showing an Emperor, yes, "His apostolic majesty," delighting to honor higher culture. The monarch, received at the door by the academical senate. was escorted to their hall, not large, and densely packed. He took a chair in front of a table on a low platform, and listened to a fifteen minutes speech from the rector standing on the floor before...