Word: honored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Amherst faculty has decided to put into practice during the coming year the new system of chapel and church monitorships, which was outlined last year when objection was made by the '95 honor men to serving as monitors. The appointments will not be made on the basis of high scholarship, and hereafter the four monitors will not necessarily be the four best scholars in the senior class. Applications will be received by the faculty and the appointments will be made on the basis of pecuniary assistance to needy and worthy students...
Final steps have been taken by the students of Princeton to perpetuate the "honor" system in examinations which has been in vogue the last three years in all departments of the university. Heretofore the system has been something in the nature of an experiment, and no hard and fast rules have been laid down for its control. But so successfully has the system worked during its three years' trial that both faculty and students are heartily in favor of it. Accordingly a mass meeting of the college has been held, at which a constitution regulating the new honor system...
...system has apparently created a higher standard of honor among students. This, it is thought will be fostered and preserved by the new constitution, in that an undergraduate committee of investigation and punishment in cases of violation is established with a regular mode of procedure in such cases. This committee consists of six members, chosen from the student body, and it has power to deal with all cases involving violations of the system. The presidents of the four classes and one senior and one junior make up the committee. This committee has the power to summon the accused persons...
...case of violation of the system by a freshman, the penalty is suspension for a period of time determined by the committee. A violation of the honor system is held to be any attempt to receive assistance from written aids or from any person or his paper, or any attempt to give assistance. This rule holds within or without the examination room during the entire time in which the examination is in progress. The sentiment of the student body is back of the movement, and the Faculty is heartily in its favor. A prominent member of that body recently said...
...LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: There was a reason why the University should honor one who has adorned the profession of an actor. It is a part of a university's work to draw attention to imaginative literature, which consists largely of plays, both comedies and tragedies. The University rightly honors one who has exquisitely interpreted this part of literature. To elevate young men by speech should be the aim of a university, and this an actor knows how to do. I present to you tonight one who has inspired and elevated hundreds of thousands of human beings, Mr. Joseph Jefferson...