Word: honorableness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Appleton Chapel was crowded with students and graduates yesterday morning, when memorial exercises were held in honor of Professor Whitney, who died last summer. This was the first formal step taken in Professor Whitney's honor by the Faculty. Professor F. G. Peabody conducted the service and delivered an address. The music was rendered by the choir of the chapel...
...dead make a great part, but they illuminate the lives of all who in future shall become members of this University. We are all associates with a common interest and common credit to win in the future. It is pretty hard to realize just what this descending honor from the men in the past and this ascending honor from us, means. We have to get at it from examples, and I take two examples from men who have died this summer." President Eliot then told of the lives of Professor Child and Ex-Governor Russell, and showed how through their...
Between 1847 and 1875 when he was appointed Professor of Geology in this University, Professor Whitney made important surveys in the Lake Superior and Mississippi mining regions and in Iowa and California. Mt. Whitney, the loftiest peak in the United States was named in his honor...
...that is, that only the younger men in the Faculty are on the side of intercollegiate contests. We did not mean to imply this at all, for we know that there are a considerable number of the older professors who have earnestly stood up for these contests and we honor them...
...going in the scrimmage about the Tree. This is a very old and a very good custom. Members of the graduating class who are physically able to join in the contest should feel it a privilege to join around the Tree in the battle for the flowers, and an honor to carry away these trophies. Of late years too many men have thought it easier to go to the Tree with their friends and watch the scrimmage from a comfortable place on the stand, than to don a football suit and themselves join in the struggle. This is a poor...