Word: honored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...alone. He never belonged to a great "team-play"; nor was he the type of leader in scientific matters who organizes the working of a whole-department. His achievement was individual. Yet he had, to a remarkable degree, the faculty of fertilizing other minds--his pupils, for example, in honor of his retirement in 1908, published a volume of scientific studies dedicated to him as the inspirer of them. In the lecture room he radiated vitality; he always seemed to have more to say than could be crammed into an hour, and sometimes the lecture would begin before he entered...
...should throughout your university course show yourself capable of doing work of more than average excellence. In order to emphasize this expectation and at the same time to encourage our students to attempt something worthy of them and of the university we have established a new system of honor courses to go into operation at the beginning of this academic year. These courses are given in every department of the university and have been conceived with the purpose of affording our students an opportunity of working along lines in which they are particularly interested and can acquit themselves with credit...
...opportunity such as this, we feel that the time has come when our students must recognize the fast that they are expected to do something more than escape conditions. We wish to draw the line clearly and sharply between the group of merely pass men and honor men. No one can be said to do his work well when it is possible for him to do it better. Any positive degree of excellence is always challenged by the possibility of some superlative...
...almost certain to be discovered. This may not mean a great deal to a new student who has not learned the dread of the blacklist; and it probably means less than nothing to a man who can see a few immediate dollars farther than he can his own honor and future pleasure. But we venture to say that to almost every Senior the crime of speculation begets a penalty awful enough to keep him from it whatever may be his moral inclination. New Harvard men should take this to heart and shun the speculator who comes out from town with...
President and Mrs. Lowell were the guests of Myron T. Herrick, the United States ambassador. They also visited the home of Fernald Baldensterger, the newly appointed French exchange professor to Harvard. A series of dinners were given in President Lowell's honor by James H. Hyde, director of the University of Paris, the Harvard Club, and the Franco-American Committee, at which Premier Barthou and other members of the cabinet and distinguished scholars of France were present...