Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sophomores had on the grounds a ponderous wooden bowl about 2 1-2 feet in diameter and fully 2 inches thick, strongly dovetailed to resist the most powerful efforts of the freshmen to break it. The object of the sophomores in this annual fight is to put the last honor man of the freshman class into the bowl, while the freshmen fight to get their last honor man off the field and then to break the bowl. So when Prof. Jackson, secretary of the college faculty, announced the list of freshmen distinguished through the term, a painful silence attended...
Oxford University is composed of no less than twenty-one separate colleges, all of which have their own officers and buildings and are situated in various parts of the town, each college consisting of a chapel, library, dining or great hall, quadrangle and dormitories. Balliol and Merton divide the honor of being the oldest colleges, as the former was founded in 1260 and the latter four years afterward. The examinations for entrance to Balliol are unusually "stiff" and her graduates generally rank high upon the honor-roll in the university examinations. Merton boasts of the finest chapel, the choir...
...present system of college athletics these requisites are met, if not perfectly, at least as well as it is possible for them to be met. They furnish a mental stimulus. They set up an object to be striven for and an ideal of strength or skill. The object is honor-honor of no great worth, perhaps, but still honor to the student mind. To secure a victory in any sport, good brains in the players contribute quite as much as good muscles. In fact, it is the skilled muscles roughly directed by good brains which win, and not the players...
...well known. This refutes any claim to any previous superiority in eights to which Pennsylvania can lay claim. To the little of champion Harvard does not aspire, being contented with her annual races with Yale and Columbia. It is evident that Pennsylvania has no just claim to that honor. The Magazine takes no pains to refute the statements and editorials published in most of the daily and sporting papers outside of Philadelphia. Until it has done so satisfactorily we shall not believe that the outside world is sustaining them in their action...
Advice to Freshmen: Honor thy professor in the days of thy youth, that thou mayest be solid before the senior year...