Word: honorableness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this rule and discountenance any violation of it either in spirit or in letter. Consequently every senior who purchases a ticket from the Class Day Committee tacitly agrees to conform to this rule. If he does not do so his action cannot in any way be said to be honorable. We do not care to go on the assumption that it is necessary to make every purchaser sign a paper pledging himself to abide by the principles which govern the sale of tickets, believing that a man's honor is sufficient guarantee that he will observe those rules...
...with honor can purchase a ticket which he intends to use contrary to the plainly stated conditions of the sale. No man with intelligence can fail to see that such an affair as Class Day cannot be managed satisfactorily unless there is order, and that there cannot be order unless each man will sink his individual preferences in the will of the majority...
Under these circumstances, the men are entitled to high honor for the unfaltering manner in which they have made their honest effort for success. They have been so faithful because they have recognized that they have an obligation to the University,-the obligation of representing it with credit and, if possible, with success. It would be rough ingratitutede for the University not to make the send-off this noon a memorable...
...honor of Yale that the conduct of her students, or at least a great majority of them, was in harmony with the spirit of these words. For the kind courtesy shown, Harvard is grateful...
battle, not yours is the splendor of sacrifice of life and love for a great cause, but it is yours to serve faithfully, if with less glory, under the flag of honor,- of honesty, of purity, of self-forgetfulness, of devotion to duty. That is the perpetual flag of Harvard. See that you hold it up steadily, always in advance, and pass it on with its colors bright to those who shall receive it at your hands. Thus shall you become worthy companions of those whom we honor today...