Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty now send their second warnings to parents or guardians in the form of registered letters, in order to prevent their interception by the interested students or their friends. The discovery of this plan has caused some indignation among college men, and it implies an insulting disbelief in their honor. [News...
...club's reading-room. In 1882, owing to the influence of that class, it was improved very materially, the inner decorations being all new and radical changes made throughout. Elections were given out to 30 juniors from the class of '83, and it was made something of an honor to receive an election to the University Club, which now was on a par with any club-house in the city, containing a large reading-room, where all the daily papers were provided, and where now the college exchanges can be found, also a cafe. On the second floor...
There is a practice here, of long standing, nourished by folly and disregard of gentlemanly honor, allowed to grow and increase by the indifference of the college and of its officials, which has long passed its day, if it ever had one,-we mean the cowardly joke of sign stealing. It seems now a recognized thing, that to lead a proper and full college life, one must steal one or more signs-the greater the number the greater the glory. But stealing it is, and to the college at large we doubt if the difference between the undergraduate who "rags...
...were sorry and surprised to learn yesterday that the president and corporation had not taken and would not take any steps towards inviting Mr. Matthew Arnold to lecture here. It seems to us that, as has been the case before, the college missed not only an opportunity of honoring so distinguished a man as Mr. Arnold, but also was in some measure forgetful of the interests of the students. The honor might be slight, but the interest and value in hearing the son of Tom Browne's Doctor Arnold, and a man who has played so distinguished a part...
Informal examinations, by correspondence, will be held at intervals by each instructor, at his discretion; they will involve no extra expense, and will be required of every student. Besides the above, pass and honor examinations, will be held, open to such students as desire to take them. The pass examinations, at the end of a course in any subject, will be conducted by the Instructor in charge; the honor examinations, on the first Wednesday in December in each year, will be conducted by some distinguished specialist, who has no share in the instruction of the students. Both the pass...