Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commencement part. The custom of having a few of the leaders in the graduating class address the Commencement gathering on almost any subject, from What is Wrong with the World to May Four Years in College, is an ancient one, and used to bring out enthusiastic competition for the honor. But for the past few years there has been a reluctance of Seniors to say any more in the Commencement ceremonies than is necessary, and the invitations to the rostrum have brought a meagre response...
...Swarthmore honors plan, the Harvard tutorial system and the Wisconsin Experimental College all impress us as admirable reforms tending to informalize and intensify college training. They show a growing tendency to consider each student as an individual, to adapt the course of study to his needs and interests, to stimulate his curiosity, and to develop his initiative. However, the two former plans are narrowly limited in their application. The real young barbarians are seldom honor students or sons of Harvard. They are "C" students in the state universities and newer colleges. Not until these institutions follow the example of Wisconsin...
...caretaker of Soldiers Field, inquired yesterday why the second University baseball team had been transferred to the soccer field for practice he found that the team in question was the nine that the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa is sending to New Haven to meet the Yale honor fraternity Friday afternoon...
...three years has been, occupied by James John Walker (48). Mayor Walker (he is addressed never as "Your Honor" but as "Mister Mayor," like ''Mister President") last week laid a public school corner stone at Coney Island, broke ground for a new subway, endorsed National Hospital Day, held his 6-year-old nephew Paul Burke on his knee at City Hall while the lad was publicly immunized against diphtheria to the boom of flashlights, prepared to attend the Kentucky Derby. Also, he pondered this question: Should he take an eagerly-offered renomination from Tammany in the primary next...
...Salm Ramos, she is a recent widow of Urban Hanlon Broughton, a British engineering tycoon, to whom a title had long been promised. Britons found more interest in the new title than in the new peeress who bore it. By Royal decree, Mrs. Broughton became Cara, Baroness Fairhaven, in honor of the fishing village on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., where her father was born. British heraldic experts said that, though many a British peer has chosen for his title the name of a foreign place-viz., Kitchener of Khartoum (Egypt), Byng of Vimy (France), Napier of Magdala (Abyssinia)-Lady...