Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...substitute, and a very poor substitute at that, for the instruction in elocution received at the eastern colleges. With all deference to the colleges of the west, it seems slightly unnecessary to incorporate into Harvard a tacitly acknowledged weakness of her humbler rivals. If they who desire the honor and eclat of oratorical victories would pay more attention to the fully competent and exceptional instruction in elocution already provided for the students of Harvard, there would be less thought given to "such an institution" as a National Inter-collegiate Oratorical Association...
...CRIMSON: -The Shakespeare Society cannot take the place of an inter-collegiate oratorical association, any more than class races and games between elevens of the same college, can take the place of inter-collegiate races and games. To be considered the best orator in Harvard would be a great honor, but to be ranked the first orator in all of our colleges would be a greater. The greater the honor the greater the effort to secure, hence the advantage of an intercollegiate association over the Shakespeare Society...
...Phillips Brooks will be the select preacher in the University of Cambridge next June. This is the second time that this honor has been conferred on an American clergyman...
...equivalent, are willing to ignore it, in order to have moral support of Harvard students. If, therefore, our "hosts" approve of our action in order to make political capital out of our presence in their parade, we need have no fear of violating any sentiments of decency or honor by displaying the true results of our canvass...
...effect of enthusiasm. The Seniors of Harvard have no right in such a procession, if they bear their intended transparency. No gentleman has the right to say or do anything to the detriment of the man whose salt he is eating. The Senior Class is equally bound in honor not to attempt to defeat the object of the Republican procession; a thing which they will attempt if they thus proclaim their hostility to Mr. Blaine...