Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Above all, Roosevelt carried with him through life the principles and standards which Harvard men are expected to make their guides. It is impossible to measure the enormous effect upon public life of a man who was for years the foremost in the nation, on the honor of public service. He smashed the conventional ways of thinking and doing, he ignored the maxims of the professional politician, he thought that nations could be carried on like families, with consideration for others, with safeguard of the interests of posterity, with honesty and openness of dealing...
...fact an expedient one, no proposal concerning military service will ever enjoy widespread support. We should remember, however, that so long as the possibility of war in the future exists, no matter how pleasing the prospect or how buoyant our hopes, it is a matter not only of national honor but of stern necessity, to maintain a trained fighting force as an instrument of defense in time of war. Our nation may count itself fortunate for being saved from huge losses of men and material by the three years' experience in trench warfare imparted to us by the French...
...attend Chapel is at once a duty and an opportunity. When presence at Chapel was made voluntary by the University some years ago it was the tacit understanding that the honor and good judgment of the men would ensure their continuance of the custom. But recently neither of these virtues appear to have exercised a favorable influence upon the attendance. Much praise is due, however, to those few men who have either created or-continued the admirable habit of going to Chapel, especially at a time when the appeal of the bell has been regularly falling upon the deaf ears...
...offered for both graduates and undergraduates. From this time on the possessor of the University's B.S. degree will have a higher standing, while men holding degrees of Mining Engineer, Doctor of Science and the like will be in as great demand throughout the country as are the honor men at the Law School. The Engineering School opens at a most auspicious time; may its success be unsurpassed...
...daily life as a student, house him separately, force him to go to bed every night at a definite hour, develops in him no qualities of self-discipline whatever. If he won't do this as an individual out of his loyalty to his university and a sense of honor he would better fail...