Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...festival will be marked by no unseemly exhibitions on the college green. Apart from the regular graduating exercises, commencement day has always been devoted to the renewal of the relations of classmates with an institution dear to all their hearts and which they all delight to honor. Clergymen, doctors, lawyers, merchants, students, and men in all the higher walks of life, meet on commencement day to welcome each other with friendly courtesy. The several classes, having met together, listen to reports of what has transpired relating to any of their number. Songs are sung in the yard, punch is drank...
...erected one of the finest monuments in Greenwood Cemetery, might reward the courtesy of a 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...
...statue in honor of General Sylvanus Thayer was unveiled at West Point yesterday afternoon with appropriate ceremonies...
Legendre being thus disposed of, Carnifex, personated by Edmund A. Wasoon, delivered an oration in honor of their triumph, taking all the glory of the victory to themselves...
...commissioned officers and crew of the Arctic steamer Jeannette have been honorably discharged from that special service, and each one given a medal of honor...