Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chaplain of the fleet, the most profane; the Ensign, the best story teller, and last, but not least, the Boatswain, the most obscene. When the senior parts were announced and the happy recipients of parts filed to the president to receive them, the navy formed the guard of honor and escorted them about the yard with a band and all the officers rigged out in full naval regalia. The members of the club who had received parts were compelled to resign amid the most ludicrous ceremonies, and the unfortunate (?) ones stood up one after the other and addressed the crowd...
Bernard Dracham, Columbia, '82, received the first prize in Arabic at the Seminary of Oriental Languages, University of Breslau. This is the first instance of such honor being gained by an American...
...Amherst Student says: The baseball season has now fairly opened, and the best results are expected from the team which Amherst sends to the field. 1st: the strongest nine which we can present is today upholding the honor of the purple and the white on the diamond. 2nd: every man on the nine is playing to the best of his ability...
...fact, the school government encourages the students in all their sports. The races between Eton and the other great preparatory schools are oecasions of great interest and excitement. The position most coveted at Eton is that of "captain of the boats," and the individual who receives that honor, due solely to his strength and skill as an oarsman, is the lion of the school greatly admired and respected, especially by the lower class...
There will be no recitation in Prof. Goodwin's course this week, owing to the honor examinations in classics...