Word: honore
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...honor of the College we are sorry to be obliged to refer, in any way, to the meeting of the Senior class on Wednesday evening. Of the officers elected it is of course none of our business to express an opinion. But in our last issue we expressed a hope that the meeting would be distinguished by the absence of those traits which have predominated too much in the past, and that the qualifications required of candidates for office would have been their fitness for the duties expected to devolve upon them, rather than their connection or non-connection with...
Have we not pride enough, have we not energy enough, to put an end to such reproaches? Let us raise money, let all row who can, and let us revive the old-time spirit, when a seat in a class boat was an honor not easily acquired, and a seat in the "University" was guarded with such care and faithfulness that victory was made absolutely certain...
...terrible enormity of indulging in "cane rushes." This amusement was never popular in Cambridge, and we cannot judge of the pleasure to be derived from it. But the breaking of pledges is a thing not to be treated lightly; it shows a lack of the commonest sense of honor which throws into the shade a disregard of finer points. The long list of colleges at which hazing has caused trouble this fall excuses us for thanking heaven that we are not as others...
...other colleges the interest in boating seems constantly increasing, and manifests itself in the most substantial form by offering an abundance of large, strong men as candidates for seats in the University boat. A place on the crew is an honor emulously sought for, and relinquished only with a struggle. At Yale, Captain Cook had constantly at his elbow a force of strong, trained men, waiting and working for a chance. Year after year, through success and defeat, the same men stuck by him; and no Harvard man will deny that they were well rewarded, last June, for their faithfulness...
...honor, profit, safety, never rash...