Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero. For hours, beneath the direct rays of a beating sun, and when the rains of November were thrumming a monotonous tattoo on the roof of the baseball cage, he has practised for but one thing: that the Varsity might be great. In return he asks nothing; though, when honor's at the stake, like the heroine of almost any novel, he has been ready always to "go the whole...
...lower themselves to submitting to the questions of a body of impartial citizens. Consulting the district attorney was also out of the question. Finally the fifteen members decided to examine themselves, one after another being judged by the other fourteen. Thus will the slate be wiped clean and the honor of the city be upheld...
Fifteen out of 45 competitors were elected to associate membership in the Harvard Flying Club at a recent meeting. An initiation banquet will be held in honor of the new members on Monday night. Another election will be held within three weeks at which some of these associate members will be chosen regular members...
...journalistic pomp and circumstance that greted its predecessor, has given in May the dignity of an accepted innovation to what was in January an educational experiment. But the Reading Period has not yet completed its own justification as a fixture in the Harvard curriculum. The increase in honor grades of two percent, the increase of one percent in satisfactory grades, and the decrese of three percent in grades below the level of C would offer insufficient space for the seal of official approval, even if grades were to be considered the ultimate test of intellectual accomplishment. Of more significance...
...Reading Period is in itself such a determined step in that direction that it is questionable whether the student should be completely deprived of tutorial guidance. The possibilities for research and creative work in the time thus made available to the tutor are without doubt great, and honor would be presumed, on the basis of past accomplishment, to be won during them for the University. But if the tutorial system is to continue serving alike the dropped Freshman and the first group Sophomore, it seems clear that it should not abandon the academically lesser of these, nor the many...