Word: honorableness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...postgraduate research departments more popular among foreign students. The reason that these universities are not more popular among advanced American students is because they have no post-graduate work, in the American sense of the term. The "Tripos" system at Cambridge of dividing all men into three classes of honor at the final examinations, demands most sever work with a coach for a long succession of years, and, after the final examination upon the success or failure in which depends the whole work in the previous years, there is nothing to do but to coach others, or begin independent research...
...immense amount of work, and is, at least, entitled to be unmolested. The placards have been put on sale and can be obtained for a few cents. The management expects that many men will desire the placards and has provided this legitimate means for obtaining them. A grain of honor will make a student scorn to use any other means...
...matter of much importance. That the individual may reach the highest expression of his power, he must develop that which is part of his own nature. Every man should learn to value and to use his own individuality. It is a priceless gift, next in sequence of value to honor and health. It is the one power which all possess and which may lead to permanent renown: and if in his youth a man tries to put it from him, he comes as near as may be to the intellectual standard of that "base Indian" who "threw away a pearl...
...wealth is not good enought to be worth all the efforts of a man's life, and here many make the great mistake, for certainly there are thousands who spend all their strength in its acquirement. Others make the object of life the attainment of social or political honors. Life is none of these; it does not consist of honor or gold, or of rank, but it is rather the development and perfecting of the character and the striving after an ideal manhood...
...church is defined as a voluntary association of people united by a common creed to honor the Christian religion. It is a corporation to be kept distinctly separate from the congregation. Church societies are frequently found which perform the financial duties of the church, thus acting in unison with it. These societies are seldom incorporated, because of the religious seruples of their members against such action...