Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Wellesley College has a beautiful room named in honor of Mrs. Browning, and containing Story's bust of the poet and the manuscript of her poem, "Little Mattie." This manuscript was the gift of Robert Browning...
...other colleges engage professional trainers, and play against professional teams, and consequently are placed at a great advantage over us, both in base-ball and other branches of athletics. Next year, with the proper training, we should be able to put in the field a nine that could bring honor and credit to Harvard, and we earnestly hope that the faculty will not prevent that nine from contending upon equal terms with those of our rival universities...
...college has done right, we believe, to discriminate in the men it chooses to honor and to withhold honors where the character of the incumbent of the chief magistracy is not such as should be commended to popular exaltation. This course may give rise to much bitterness, and will, perhaps, be taken by a large portion of the governor's supporters as an affront to the people by "Boston aristocracy. . . This probably ends the attendance of the governor in state with the Lancers at the Harvard commencement, a parade which might as well be cut off for good. -[Springfield Republican...
...other utterance at the Unitarian festival on Thursday evening elicited such enthusiastic demonstrations of approval as when the Rev. Mr. Peabody referred approvingly to the refusal of Harvard University to grant its highest honor to Governor Butler. A tremendous burst of applause greeted the announcement and was thrice repeated...
...million people attended the fete at Moscow in honor of the Czar's coronation on Saturday...