Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Springfield Republican has the following: "The Boston Advertiser semi-officially demonstrates that Harvard University will continue to honor the chief executive office of the State, by giving the degree of LL. D. to the man who happens to hold it at present. Thereupon the Journal raises this warning: 'There will be more than one will changed when Harvard College confers a degree upon Gov. Butler.' Will 'our university' allow itself to be bulldozed...
...conferring the degre of LL. D. upon the governor. He is Dr. Butler already, another college having conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him. But the proper thing for Harvard to do is to follow the 27 precedents it has made in this century, by conferring the customary honor upon the present chief magistrate. Then if anybody wants to change his will, why let him change it to his heart's content. - [Post...
Girton College, near Cambridge, justly occupies the place of honor in England's renowned universities. The distinguishing feature of Girton College is that it purposes to give exactly the same education to young women that the University of Cambridge gives to young men. The commencing of the movement for its establishment may be said to date back to 1865, when the university first threw open its higher local examinations to young women as well as to young men. With a few alterations the routine of life at Girton is very much the same as in all the ladies' colleges...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Will you correct one important error in your editorial in last Friday's HERALD about my communications? I beg to state that many candidates for honors are excused from a certain share of the year's work, for within my own knowledge, two instructors last year and one this year, have distinctly told honor men that only the regular course these would be required for substitution for forensics, that no more time and no more original work should be given to the theses, simply because they were to count for forensics...
...CREW, '85-J. J. Storrow.Which he ... takes on the point of honor...