Word: honored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Home rule cannot satisfactorily settle the essential difficulties of the land question: Fortnightly Review. XLV, 273. LIII, 177. a. The British government being bound in honor to protect the landlords could not allow a hostile Irish parliament to settle the question; Fortnightly XLV. 861; Edinburgh Review. CLIV, 291. b. An Irish parliament would only temporarily settle the question: Dublin University Magazine. LXX, 116; Contemporary Review, XLIX...
Five new prizes are offered, and twelve more endowed scholarships appear in the list, making the whole number ninety. The number of students enrolled this year is as follows: Fellows 8, Graduate students 93, Academic department 504, Scientific department 155. Special students 90-total 850. The first honor man of the present senior class Academic, is Samuel Grant Oliphant...
Last night the dinner given in honor of the team that beat Yale and of the second eleven which proved such an important factor in that defeat, took place. At quarter before 8 o'clock the great dining room of the RevereHouse, decorated with Harvard banners, was filled with three hundred men waiting for the team to come in. The band played Fair Harvard as Neal Rantoul '92 escorted Captain Cumnock to his seat of honor on the right of the president of the dinner, Moses Williams, Jr., '91. The team followed and took seats at the head...
After the dinner was well begun Mr. Williams introduced Arthur B. Nichols '91 as toastmaster. In a happy speech Mr. Nichols acknowledged the honor, and proceeded to present G. T. Goldthwaite '91 as orator. Reviewing the history of foot ball at Harvard he showed that hard work was the great faction in the evolution of our evergrowing strength which had culminated at last in victory. As a Harvard man he thanked our coaches, Dr. Conant and the second eleven for their splendid services and congratulated them on their success. He pointed out the necessity of keeping next year in mind...
...dinner to the eleven this evening we hope the main object of the occasion will not be lost sight of. At first glance, the dinner is, of course, in honor of our foot ball team; but closer observation shows that the main object of the dinner is to bring the University as a whole into closer relations on athletic matters. It is a chance for a free expression of what men feel ought to be done, and what men are determined to do, for the athletic interests of Harvard during the coming year. It is also a chance for graduates...