Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interesting contribution to a recent issue of the Boston Herald Professor Arthur Gordon Webster, of Worcester, tells the following story. One Commencement Day he met an undergraduate whom he asked to pick out their fellow-townsmen on the Honor List. With a laugh of contempt his friend replied: "We don't go in much for that." Professor Webster and a great many critics of American higher education would take this instance as typical of the proverbial Harvard indifference. There is still considerable justification for their opinion. Yet during the last two years Americans, and American students in particular, have undoubtedly...
...January issue of Outing, which appeared yesterday, is published the annual football roll of honor consisting of all football players throughout the country who have been recommended by two or more coaches. This list, which contains 109 names, may be considered a more accurate selection of the leading players than are the "All-American" elevens made up by experts because the selections are made by 46 football coaches who have seen the men play...
...picking an All-American team of cheer leaders for 1916, the expert is confronted with a wealth of material. There are some 50 colleges and Pittsburg University, all playing football on a large scale, and each one putting forward from one to four cheer leaders to compete for the honor of being selected by this department...
...itself. The class offices should be bestowed as a reward of merit and for services rendered to the class itself and to the University as a whole. Since the men chosen at these elections represent the class for life, and inasmuch as the offices are the last reward and honor that any class may give to its most deserving members, college elections can hardly be conducted in the same manner as a political campaign...
...make this petition in the belief that the principles here involved are so fundamental to civilization that neutral nations cannot with either honor or safety fail to make their position immediately and unmistakably known...