Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., April 28.--Because of the unsatisfactory workings of the present honor system at Yale, plans have been formulated for a new one. The student council has taken the initiative in advocating a change and has adopted resolutions which are now awaiting the approval of the college authorities...
...council proposes to divorce the Freshman year from the honor system, and also proposes to take the complete jurisdiction of the honor system into its own hands...
Even Miss Saxon, however, wins only second honors for the evening in competition with Mr. Harry Puck. For Mr. Puck is indeed a rara avis, a musical comedy hero whom the male members of the audience can with equanimity listen to their female companions admire. Besides failing to arouse that on-well-it-takes-all-kinds-of-people-to-make-a-world feeling so common in the contemplation of musical comedy heroes, Mr. Puck sings most satisfactorily, maltreats a piano outrageously, even to the extent of landing on the keys in a nose dive while in the throes...
...services to the science of medicine have won a wide recognition, honorary orders having been conferred upon him by the leading societies of four nations. Among the decorations he has received is the Cross of the French Legion of Honor...
...number of years Yale has conducted honor courses, designed to aid the better students to progress by their own efforts, rather than keep pace with a slowmoving, stereotyped course of lectures and examinations. But this system has never been applied integrally. Even the most brilliant honor men have been compelled to take some prescribed classroom courses, and their degrees have differed in no way from those given to students who crammed their way through the final examinations by resort to tutoring schools...