Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oxford man, says Robert Laird Collier, is known in society by his drawl. The present writer has several young Oxford friends, who are true, good, truth-loving fellows. One of these has swept honor after honor, and lives on their income, and his conversation is all of the Lord Dundreary style. This is just what he said to a young lady friend in my hearing within a fortnight. He sat with one knee tightly held in his clasped fingers: "Do-eh-er-like-er-music? I-eh-ye-know-eh-like-er-music-eh-ye-know." It is said these...
These being the facts in the case, what inferences are we to draw from them? It would seem to be a fair inference that the college authorities attach very little value to the honor of a student who is accused of a misdemeanor, and that they are content to reason from effects to causes and motives without regard to the man's word. No man in college was more trusted and respected than Mr. S., and those who know him know that he would not be guilty of a dishonest act such as the faculty have practically convicted...
...regretted that more intimate relations do not exist between the faculty and the students, if for nothing else, in order that the latter might know whether or not they err in supposing, as many do, that the faculty do not trust the honor of the students, and that their policy is to sacrifice the slight offender or even the innocent transgressor that the greater but undetected wrong-doers may see and tremble...
...rights and privileges. The state of my health and the increasing weight of years may prevent me from taking an active part in the matter, but it would be a great satisfaction to give my voice in behalf of a measure which I feel certain would redound to the honor and materially promote the prosperity of the college. Brown University cannot afford to hesitate much longer in a matter like this of simple justice. No one who has felt the pulse of public opinion can doubt that the time has come when a liberal educational policy, irrespective...
...banquet was given in Washington last night in honor of Gen. W. T. Sherman's sixty-third birthday and approaching retirement from the army, at which speeches were made by Chief-Justice Waite, Justice Miller, Gen. Sheridan, Senator Hawley, Senator Logan, Mr. Henry Watterson and Gen. Sherman...