Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proud to believe that the degrees of Williams have rarely been given except in recognition of merit, and that no venality or desire of currying favor with influential men can be attributed to our alma mater. Governor Butler has said that he regards with the "deepest sensibility" the honor shown him by this college, and it is but natural that he should show his feeling by accepting our invitation, and that we should be glad to receive him as an honored guest. We shall be pleased to welcome the governor of Massachusetts to our commencement exercises. - [Athenaeum...
...First - We believe that the nervous strain imposed by the present honor system upon a large number of the students is incompatible with their highest physical and mental development. We know, many of us by experience, that from the freshman year the desire not to disappoint the hopes of parents and friends in this particular leads to worse than useless worry and anxiety, and interferes seriously with that quiet of nerve and mind essential to the best mental work...
Second - The system unavoidably fails, in some cases, to be a correct index of ability or industry. That would perhaps be a matter of small moment were it not that the public is prone to consider success or failure in gaining an honor the infallible test of a student's attainments. There are instances in which ill health, mobility to pursue a continuous course or other unavoidable circumstances prevent a student of genuine merit from reaching the required standard of excellence; and she is consequently, through no fault of her own, placed, in the judgment of outsiders, upon a level...
...college papers indulge in frequent sarcasm upon the subject and one might imagine from their tone that the condition of affairs at Yale was altogether very gloomy and hopeless, and that such a thing as progress was quite unknown in the Yale faculty. It is quite to the honor of Yale students, as of all college students, that they are always to be found on the side of progress and in favor of more liberal methods. A lively interest is taken at Yale, if we may judge from the tone of her press, in the successive steps taken by Harvard...
...erected one of the finest monuments in Greenwood Cemetery, might reward the courtesy of an LL. D. from the New York University with a handsome gift to the institution so near which he is to sleep the last long sleep? It would not be creditable to bestow the honor from a mercenary motive, but then Governor Butler is a scholarly man, and he himself has recently remarked that he is probably one of three or four of the Massachusetts governors who have been able to translate a Harvard diploma without a dictionary. - [New York Mail...