Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale's old time athletes will give the team a dinner at the Club; the men who have represented Yale in football, baseball, track, and crew, or who have been awarded a "Y", are, for the first time in Yale's athletic history, combining to do honor to a team, and with the further object of founding the Yale Varsity Club. Walter Camp, the father of Yale football and baseball; Bob Cook, the father of Yale rowing; Harry Brooks and Charlie Sherrill, the fathers of Yale track athletics; "Pudge" Heffiefinger, "Dutch" Carter, Fred Stevenson, captain of the '88 crew, which...
...popular piece of fiction, which, after all, was not entirely fiction. Nearly all the big schools in the country have to do with the problem which Princeton now is debating. In all of them there are societies and clubs, more or less secret, membership in which is esteemed an honor to be prized, and the influence of which in many instances is highly beneficial. But the trouble is that these clubs tend to take a place of overshadowing importance in the student mind, and that in the nature of the situation many worthy men must fail of election to them...
...course, to the sneer which always accompanies the word "highbrow". It is a condition which should cause us serious reflection. One of the faults of a democracy lies apparently in the fact that while education is more widely diffused its quality is somewhat diluted. High scholarship is not honored in America as it is abroad. Other countries recognize the attainments of their learned citizens by some particular distinction: England by knighthood, France by membership in one of the famous learned societies. Efforts have frequently been made here to establish some such governmental honor, but Congress has always considered...
...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Soccer Association at Columbia University last Saturday, Pennsylvania fared the best in the selection of the all-American intercollegiate soccer eleven. Four of the Quakers were designated for the honor. Princeton placed three players on this imaginary team, Haverford got two and Yale and Harvard each one man. Cornell failed to have a member of her team named for the honor...
Professor Taussig's appointment is an honor for himself, a distinction for the University, and a service to the nation...