Word: honored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...List of Honor...
...list of Freshmen who won honors in their entrance examinations, published in today's issue, is apt to be overlooked because of the preponderance of football material. Nevertheless it presents just as worthy a record of achievement as that of our football heroes. If the pen is not now mightier than the pigskin, its day will come. Those Freshmen who have temporarily but strenuously achieved, are deserving of all honor...
That their accomplishment is not fleeting is shown by the records of last year's honor entrance men. Out of twenty-two who received highest honors, six made first group last year, eight made second group, and only two failed to be recorded in the Rank List. These figures partially corroborate President Foster's much attacked contention that early marks point to later success. They go to show that the recognition accorded to this year's Freshmen is an indication not of passing accomplishment but of permanent ability...
...superior feature; and toward the end of the week, for a while, even he will yield to football. Not even such illusive suspense as may be manufactured out of the close vote in California and New Mexico avails to keep uppermost in our minds the questions of national honor that we were all willing--or were we willing?--to die for two weeks ago. The human interest of football is unquestioned and unquestionable. It was ever thus among people who had sporting blood in their veins. There were many people in ancient Greece whose patriotism did not prevent them from...
...life nobly devoted to intellectual and scientific research was that of Percival Lowell, who is dead at Flagstaff, Arizona, where in 1894 he erected his great astronomical observatory. Mr. Lowell had already attained honor in another field of research when his interest in astronomy, and his conviction that the altitude and atmosphere of Flagstaff offered an opportunity for perhaps a more intimate scrutiny of the planets than any which had yet been made, led him to begin his great work at that point. He had won rank for his use of the scientific imagination in the field of Japanese occultism...