Word: honored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have the honor of presenting a brief report on the condition of athletics in the University during the academic year...
...athletics is not physical, but moral. If a case against them is ever made out, it will not be because they kill a man now and then (though the risk of physical injury should be studiously reduced); it will be because they appear at times to paralyze the honor of contestants and spectators. I write as an enthusiastic believer in intercollegiate sports, who would see them not merely maintained, but maintained at such a level as shall keep them above legitimate question. These sports at their best have an immense educational power in every part of education that...
After the reception, Count von Bernstorff lunched with President Eliot, President Lowell, and several members of the German department, at the Union, being the guest of the Germanic Museum Association. In the evening he attended a dinner in Boston, given in his honor by the Boston Deutsche Gesellschaft...
...Pierian Sodality for a rather overdressed orchestra in the scenes in the tavern garden, and of a choir from the Boston Turn Verein to sing German songs, as sentimental as the play, between the acts. Moreover, if circumstances compelled the German ambassador to deny the performance the honor of his presence, a numerous audience applauded it heartily because it understood...
...restoration of the Yard pump even if Fresh Pond water has to be artfully substituted for the perilous spring water that lurks underground near Hollis. His letter is accompanied by a portrait of the old pump and an ode of President Roosevelt's College days, reprinted in its honor. Later the editor demands a fountain. Just what he says about, I cannot tell, since my proof stops short in the middle of a word, and the time vouchsafed by the Magazine to a reviewer precludes my getting the rest. Among the editorial articles not thus cut off, the most important...