Word: honored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Anatole Le Braz, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, professor at the University of Rennes, and a famous French author, will be the guest of honor at a reception to be held by the Cercle Francais in the club room, Grays 17, tonight at 8 o'clock. Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 will introduce M. Le Braz, and other members of the Faculty, including the entire French department, will be present to welcome the guest, who is an old friend of the University, having been James Hazen Hyde lecture here in 1906. In the course of the evening...
...baseball captain, H. R. Hardwick '15, deserves that, or any other athletic honor the University can pay him. Athletically, he has been one of its most valuable assets since he entered College, and it is only fitting that he should end his College career as a major sport captain...
...Beta Kappa has offered a bronze trophy to be held for one year by the preparatory school whose scholars do best in the University entrance examinations. No detailed rules have been drawn up except that the award will be based on the number of names on the honor list in proportion to the number of candidates from the school (with a minimum of five), so that small schools, provided they send five or more pupils to be examined, will have as good a chance as the larger schools...
...simply to determine the best poem among the ten or fifteen submitted, judged as a poem. Because it was a good sonnet, and not because it was anti-German or anti-anything, "Gott Mit Uns" received the prize. "Dieu Avec Nous," written with equal skill, would have received equal honor...
There seems to be no reason why a similar system could not be installed at the Union. An office in the Union, since it is by far the largest organization in the University, carries with it enough honor to attract candidates. A tradition could be built up and the prestige of the competition would grow. The Register has already taken its place as an important college activity; the management of the Union should a-fortiori do likewise. Of course, some elective offices, as at present, should remain, in order to secure representation of the members. But some process of natural...