Word: honored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...types of women-"Androwmache the young wife and mother who in losing Hector must lose all-Penelope loyal under hard trial to her long absent lord; the Helen of the Iliad, remorseful, clearsighted, keenly sensitive of any kindness shown her at Troy; the Helen of the Odyssey, restored to honor at her home at Sparta; the maiden Nausicaa, so beautiful in the dawning promise of a noble womanhood-perfect in her delicacy, her grace, her general courage...
...James McMahon, of the Cornell mathematical department, has been elected a member of the London Mathematical Society. This honor is shown to very few Americans...
...been more than once disproved during the last three or four years by the yearly reports given officially from many of the largest colleges in the country. The Yale News has interested itself in the matter, and the following figures are the results of investigations in regard to the honor men in the senior and junior classes at Yale. In connection with each team is given the number of men from '90 and '91, the appointment held by each and the number receiving no appointment...
...throughout the college. The rivalry which exists between the societies has worked for much harm in athletics as well as in the publication of the various under-graduate periodicals. This feeling between the fraternities has, however, fostered the interest in oratorical contests so that it is considered a great honor at Amherst to be selected as eligible to compete for the prizes offered by the college...
...Economy, a text book on Logic, Sir William Hamilton's essays on metaphysics, condensed and edited, and not more than five years ago he prepared the report of the U. S. Silver Commission. In 1879 the degree of L. L. D. was conferred upon him by the University, an honor fifty crowning his years of usefulness. The last years of his life have been quiet and uneventful...