Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to conferring honorary degrees on the governor of Massachusetts has been, we think, clearly enough indicated heretofore. It may briefly be stated as follows: If the one holding the position of governor has done any thing which entitles him to the degree, the college will do itself honor, as well as the man, by conferring it. On the other hand, however, the college ought not to confer a degree on every one who happens to be governor of the state, simply because he is governor. As the authorities showed last year in the case of Governor Butler, the degree...
...have shared in these benefits will have cause to remember the club long after they have become graduates and ceased to frequent the quiet shades of Harvard. That the club has prospered so much is due to the awakened interest in wheeling which the present officers have aroused. All honor is due them, and the club, if it hopes for success in the future, cannot do better than pray that those chosen to the positions of trust under it may equal the present incumbents in efficiency...
...members of the senior class feel that they have lost a sincere friend, an earnest worker, and a Christian gentleman, -faithful, simple, pure; all who knew him were strongly attracted toward him, and his untimely end is felt as a personal loss; and the class desires to pay honor to his many noble qualities, to mark them as examples of manly virtue, and to tender its heartfelt sympathy to his parents in this their bitter hour...
...speaking thus at length on the subject of cheering, it is unnecessary to tell a Harvard audience that the uproarious scenes which have recently been enacted at New Haven, instead of being an honor to the nine, would be a disgrace to them and the college, and that unfair applause has never been met with by those opponents who have played us here in Cambridge. Harvard, if necessary, can bear defeat, but the college cannot bear that our visitors should feel that there was the slightest tinge of unfairness in their treatment. Let every man, then, give his heartiest support...
...such is undoubtedly the case. But when we remember that it is still young in years and that it was founded in the midst of bitter opposition in a university where moderate drinking is very prevalent, and of whose large faculty the name of but one member, all honor to him for it, is to be found on the roll, we have no reason to be discouraged with the year's work. Since all that the society requires of a man is to take his place in the ranks and then stand, our influence must be largely in proportion...