Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their greatness. The record speaks for itself. Although I intend to select only graduates of Harvard, yet I cannot pass by without noticing the founder of our university, John Harvard, of whom Edward Everett, in an oration delivered in 1826 upon the erection of a monument in his honor, spoke as follows...
...here. Now, when the advent of a new class makes but little appreciable stir in the college routine, it is difficult to realize that the college could ever have been greatly moved by the struggles between sophomores and freshmen. And yet, only a few years ago, it was an honored prerogative of the sophomore class to annoy the freshmen in every way, under the convenient name of "hazing" when it was looked upon merely as a joke for a new student to be assaulted or his property destroyed, simply because he was a new student, and could not resist. Great...
...hands of the college. Harvard at all times requires the best of everything and is disposed to be critical if it does not receive it. The position of editor of a college paper at Harvard is one that brings with it labor and responsibility, accompanied perhaps with little honor but with abundant criticism. It is perhaps for this reason that, as is the common complaint, so few will enter into competition for the position, or will accept its responsibilities when offered them. Already the HERALD thinks that it remarks a change for the better in this respect in the general...
...higher education of woman. The spirit of emulation - the desire to shine, at any cost, on commencement day are not the motives which will develop the students of Vassar College into worthy daughters of their alma mater, and these are the incentives to work which the present honor system in too many cases engenders. In view, then, of these reasons, and in view of the fact that, as students, we have infinitely better opportunities for judging the effect of this system than even your watchful care can give you, we earnestly desire that the present system of honors should...
...hereafter be appointed on what has always, tacitly, at least, been understood as the basis, viz., the student's 'general scholarship, literary ability and conduct throughout the course,' and since we do not believe it right that we should accept appointments which thus distinguish certain of our number as 'honor girls,' we respectfully ask that, in our case at least, no honor list shall in any way be announced, and that commencement exercises, as conducted by the students, be omitted. Our own wish would be that the literary exercises on that day should be furnished by the alumnae...