Word: honored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...raised with the least interference with the moral and material development of the citizen, we must eliminate the objectionable methods and reduce the problem to its simplest form. The first principle is that all inquisitorial and arbitrary methods are abhorrent to the people and inconsistent with the maintenance of honor and freedom, for they foster selfishness and encourage perjury. The second principle is that no power should tax property out of its own territory and out of reach of its protection. Some property in this country is taxed both where it is and where its owner is. Again, it should...
...courses in which an enormous amount of reading is done and the placing of such courses in charge of scholars whose tastes are literary as well as scientific. The number of students who would continue Latin and Greek longer than they do now would thus be increased, and honor-men would not have the lurking feeling that they are imposing on the world, by being recognized as proficient in languages of which they have not had either time or opportunity to study all the masterpieces. Such a plan would, moreover, increase facility in reading beyond the present insufficient standard...
...following are the honor men in the senior class at Princeton: E. B. Baxter, John C. Beecher, Edward E. Burgess, Harlin W. Hatheway, Jacob B. Hillegass, George L. Shearer, James D. Vorhees, W. B. Williams John W. Yeakles...
...announcement of the foundation of a prize for the best thesis by a candidate for honors in Modern Languages and English will be greeted with pleasure. The more numerous such prizes can be, the better, as they undoubtedly stimulate candidates, and form an additional reason for doing good work on theses that are now perhaps to a certain extent perfunctory. At Yale the Hugh Chambertain prize for the best entrance paper in Greek is considered a great honor. This new prize at harvard will have a similar effect and will also have the advantage of causing the production of good...
...accomplishment cannot fail to add much honor and glory to the zeal which American students are showing in the matter. Many of the leading colleges in the country have contributed generously through their undergraduates, and the committee hope that Harvard will not be outdone by the other institutions of learning either in the heartiness or generosity of her subscriptions...