Word: honorableness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...commencement appointments were given out lately. The Latin salutatory, the highest honor for scholarship, was given to W. D. Ward, who played halfback on the university football team for two years, and is at present playing second base on the baseball team...
...first heaven is the planet of the Moon, where dwell the souls of those whose wills though set upon virtue, were unstable in character. From the Moon Beatrice lifts Dante with a look to the second heaven of Mercury, where rest the souls of those who have pursued honor and glory on earth. Their low station in heaven is owing to their excessive desire for honor while in the world of the living. The third sphere is that of the planet Venus, the last to which the shadow of the earth reaches. Here are the souls of those whose perfect...
...Nervous strain. - (3) Liability to injuries. - (b) Intellectually. - (1) Takes excessive amount of time. - (2) Takes excessive amount of thought. - (x) Total preoccupation before the great games. - (c) Morally. - (1) Encourages extravagance. - (2) Leads to vulgar notoriety. - (3) Engenders ill feeling between colleges. - (4) Dulls the sense of honor. - (5) Dulls the feeling and has a brutalizing influence. - (6) Establishes false ideals. - (x) Physical force placed above intellectual and moral qualities...
...Intercollegiate football is injurious to the students at large. - (a) Waste of time watching games. - (b) Injury to health watching games. - (x) Dampness and cold. - (c) Hysterical excitement at periods of the great games. - (d) Dulls sense of honor. - (x) Little meannesses condoned for the sake of victory. - (e) Dulls feelings. - (f) Establishes false ideals...
...government both in - (1) Administration and in - (2) Elections: Dr. M. P. Jacobi, 165-197. - (a) It brings in new abilities. - (b) It brings in a conservative element, viz., that of the home. - (c) It purifies politics. - (1) Women pay more attention to morals. - (2) Have higher sense of honor. - (3) Not led by impulse, e.g., their overthrow of Populists in Kansas. - (d) Accords with general movement of suffrage, viz., greater numbers brings broader point of view...