Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...activities, and less participation in the extra-curricular for mere name and glory rather than interest: Unnecessary work which tests nothing but submissive endurance should be removed in so far as it is possible from managerial and publication competitions. We will consistently oppose such tendency as may exist to honor a man for the positions he holds rather than for what...
Last September (TIME, Sept. 22), the Military Junto of Chile, after having granted President Arturo Alessandri leave of absence, issued a proclamation which began: "We declare solelmly on our honor that in taking charge of public affairs we do so provisionally. ..." The Junto did not realize the great truth it had caused to be written, fort four months after its coup d'état it had been ousted by another Junto composed of younger military men (TIME...
...establish an institution of higher learning for man?a college which should be a memorial to President Wilson. "That would be a worthy thing for us to do," said the citizens of Valdosta, considering the plan. "It is just that this lonely man should at last thus come to honor in Valdosta." Nor were the citizens...
...have the honor to place in your hands the letters by which I am accredited to you in the capacity of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the French Republic...
There exists no true and general spirit of competitive scholarship. The whole college world can be divided into two unequal groups: the great majority who are satisfied to just get by in their studies and the small minority who find the present artificial honor system of the faculty stimulating. Unfortunately this second group counts in its ranks a goodly number of individuals who do study solely for grades...