Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point to all this: to satisfy my curiosity. Is the idea of inheritable subscriptions new? Has any periodical to date adopted the idea? If not here's hoping TIME has the honor of being the first to offer such subscriptions...
Hero Young's wireless from the Aquitania prevented this question from being answered. "Please," he begged, "let me come home quietly. . . . We [Thomas Nelson Perkins and Thomas W. Lament, his Reparations colleagues] cannot find in our hearts justification for the acceptance of such an honor for a service rendered as private citizens which any number of other Americans could or would have done as well. . . ." When fog trapped the Aquitania 200 miles out of New York, slowing her progress, Hero Young became impatient. The next day his eldest son, Charles Jacob Young, was being married in Cleveland to Miss...
...Harvard Studentship at Cambridge was held this year by Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, '28, grandson of the late President Eliot, prominent in undergraduate activities during the years 1924-28. The scholarship was founded in honor of Lionel de Jersey Harvard, a direct descendant of the founder of the University, who graduated from Harvard in 1915 and was killed while fighting for his country, England, during...
Commencement Day brings to Cambridge the most impressive of the University's guests, and the awarding of honor degrees is the most interesting part of the ceremony. It is a clever custom that keeps the names secret until the actual event, and an even more desirable one that makes it necessary for each recipient to be present in person. Sometimes one wishes that the same requirement might be enforced for candidates for regular degrees. Certainly the Senior's experiences of Commencement Week have become an unforgettable memory: he has been welcomed by the graduates body into which he now enters...
...greatness. This year's list is perhaps typical, and each one of the recipients represents one of the accomplishments toward which the University tries to direct its students. The honorary degree is the discriminating praise of a wise and impartial judge. It must be used not simply as further honor for men who have already won fame, but as the reward of greatness in the world's most honorable activities...