Word: honored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...though the scholarship of several members of the graduating class in the Scientific School, as measured by the college standard, was sufficiently high. As no list of commencement parts has since been published, the '94 men of the Scientific School are denied the chance of competing for the coveted honor of taking part in the exercises on commencement day. This is an evident injustice and in direct opposition to the true Harvard spirit. The student in the Scientific School differs in only two respects from the student in the college: he has less requirements for entrance and his work...
...since nothing is gained by this condition of affairs, it is unquestionably owed to spectators that they should not be afflicted with the vexatious delay which is caused by it. A mutual agreement seems to us the needed remedy. Let the four captains give their word of honor to each other that, barring unavoidable accidents, each will have his crew ready at the areed time. Then students will have confidence that the race will, if possible, be rowed as announced...
...front row in the first balcony was the place of honor, and the names of those seated there will give an excellent idea of the general character of the whole audience. The centre seat was to have been occupied by Professor G. N. Lane. In his absence, due to an unfortunate illness, his place was taken by Professor C. L. Smith, professor of Latin in the university. On his right were seated President Charles W. Eliot and Mrs. Eliot, Solomon Lincoln, president of the board of overseers, Mrs. F. D. Allen, Professor W. W. Goodwin and Mrs. Goodwin. Professor...
...program for the occasion, on four broad pages, is of course entirely in Latin. On the front page, below the seal of the University, is an epigram in heavy Roman type, announcing that the performance is in honor of our fathers, the "embattled farmers...
...believe that patriotism, despite all its modern caricatures at the hands of sentimentality and hypocrisy, will never be too commonplace to be honored; and that any institution of culture, unless its culture is simply dilettant, will always be eager to pay its due share of honor. Harvard owes a public recognition of sympathy in the inauguration of the holiday, and, in the name of the great body of students, we appeal to the gentlemen who are members of the Corporation to declare next Thursday a holiday throughout the University...