Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Streets of Shanghai. Not in years has a truckload of U. S. Marines dashed so madly over rough Chinese roads to save the honor of a pretty American missionary, lured to a mandarin's den. Heavy with leers, threats, murders and stabbings, the dolorous drama follows Pauline Starke as the girl who loves Marine Kenneth Harlan, who is in turn loved by wicked Margaret Livingston. Evil sticks up like potatoes in Irish stew. It is all excessively Chinese, silly...
...annual dinner of the Governing Board of the Union in honor of a nationally prominent Harvard graduate whose name has not yet been revealed will be given this year on the evening of Wednesday, March 28, it has just been announced. This marks the revival of the practice, begun at the close of the war but omitted during the past two years, of giving undergraduates, especially members of the Union, a chance to meet the Harvard graduates who, in the opinion of the Board, have most distinguished themselves in some particular field. President J. R. Angell A.M. '92 of Yale...
Besides the guest of honor, the undergraduate vice-president of the Union will speak, as well as one or more faculty members. A speech is usually made by the president of the University and by some well-known outside speaker. Judge F. P. Cabot '90, president of the Union, will be the presiding officer...
...Honor System, which has lately been the pivot of a small tempest at Yale, is now on the lap of the gods. The Student Council is weary of thanklessly juggling the university's morals and has sought deliverance from its travails. The Faculty shows no enthusiasm for a return to Faculty supervision in the sense of watching for cribbers, but will not tolerate a total absence of regulation. Finally, the undergraduates themselves have arrived at a state of general apathy concerning the issue...
...Council. In the first place, out of 1608 men in the three upper classes, only 772 voted. Secondly, the ballot revealed that the supporters of a return to Faculty supervision were in a six-to-one minority, while the advocates of no supervision totalled a comfortable plurality. The present Honor System was indifferently supported. Finally, however, when the Student Council discovered from the Dean that there was not a chance in a million of the Faculty's ever approving the absence of any regulatory system, it wisely turned the whole thing over to the Faculty without comment...