Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sixty pounds, is awarded annually for the best essay on a subject connected with Greek and Latin literature. During the last hundred years it has been won by such men as John Ruskin. Matthew Arnold and Dean Stanley, Greene, however, is the first American to have captured this honor...
...fiercely upon a gridiron. The griev- ance of these intellectuals is not simply the monopoly of college yells and admiring glances that greet the football captain wherever he is so gracious as to show himself. Their complaint goes deeper. The tangible rewards of university life are reserved, not for honor men, but for those who have defended the prestige of the institution at right half or in centre field. Four-fifths of the nominees for offices of the sophomore and the junior classes at Cambridge this year were either athletes or athletic managers; only two of the thirty-eight nominations...
...Beta Kappa when he can luxuriate in the Varsity Club's happy proximity to mother earth? There is, further, the feeling that advertising will help solve the problem. The names of athletes are club house hold words; cannot something be achieved by posting the names of students with honor grades? The faculty also comes in for criticism, especially the "young and generally incompetent" assistants. The professors, it is more than hinted, might do better than give lectures which merely repeat the prescribed reading, and in general, there is felt to be a lack of co-ordination both within and between...
...hear rain on a tin roof. So I covered part of my roof with tin, with an eye to that luxury. Well, air, do you think it ever rains on that tin? No, air; skips it every time. Mind, in this speech I have been trying merely to do honor to the New England weather--no language could do it justice...
...several cases even exceeded expectations. The Yale track team won on its merits; it demonstrated genuine superiority in nearly every department of the game. Every event was a desperate struggle characterized by the extremest valor on both sides. Even to be vanquished in such a battle is an honor. We cannot suppress our admiration for the spirit which has made possible at Yale the construction of such a wonderful athletic machine upon the ruins of last year's annihilating defeats...