Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...confession of fear of the prowess of American oarsmen. But the truth is, that these foreign aspirations are a nuisance to university men. If accepted, the long vacation is sacrificed, and that for a game which is not worth the candle. It is felt that there is no special honor to be gained by rowing and defeating an American club; but the match, if made, will entail, in justice to the English club, painstaking and training for weeks, just as if for an important regatta or match. It is flattering on the part of Americans and other foreigners...
...huge monster which may at any moment devour us all, is the hour-examination system. We all remember the first adoption of this system; how innocent the idea seemed when first presented to us, with what care it was nursed into stronger life. Did we not honor and bow down before it, and look to it for unnumbered blessings? Then it was a small and tender thing, but now it has grown, - ye gods, how it has grown! The plan as first broached had a pleasant sound in one's ears, and so long...
...then unknown gentleman, while explaining the programme of the unhappy days, made a joke. How I rushed on the first opportunity to the fresh air, and sought for consolation in discussing the point of the joke with a friend in misery, until a live Sophomore whom we had the honor of knowing came up and gave us advice upon doing our papers; such as, if we found them easy, not to do them as well as we could, since the men (how we swelled up at the word!) who do their admittance papers the best are sure to be called...
...peculiarly enticing manner before Harvard." "But Harvard had acquired considerable sagacity in its adversity, and probably remembering another (Association' to which it belonged once upon a time, and the forlorn hope it was compelled to lead there by some precocious 'Western upstarts,' it politely declined the proffered honor." We are not called upon to defend ourselves from insinuations of this sort, even when they are thrown out by a paper which has for a motto, "Above all Sects is Truth." The words quoted speak for themselves, and those who read them will probably agree that the position of Cornell...
...becoming quite the custom in these two clubs for the four best men to row in both races, but it is manifestly unfair, both to the candidates for the second crews, who are thus shut out, and to the other clubs, which do not think it consistent with their honor to do that sort of thing. It is to be hoped that some action will be taken, before the spring races, to prevent its being done again...