Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Another point in which many publishers fail, nay, to use a plain Anglo-Saxon word, cheat, is in the binding. It ought to be a point of honor among bookmakers to put in the market books that will stand at least one perusal without coming to pieces. But such is often not the case. One New York house, in particular, seems to do no more than throw the leaves of their books together. I picked up a book in the Library today which, though quite new, already showed signs of disintegration, and guessed at first glance from what house...
...little wrong will be the difference of finding yourself in good quarters or in a miserable bog or slough at the end of your journey through life." This principle of justice carried out religiously through the space of thirty years, made Amos Lawrence one of our most wealthy and honored citizens. "I made it a rule," he says, "to have property to represent forty per cent more than I owed"; and, following out this rule, he rose from a very small beginning to great opulence, as did likewise his brother Abbott, who came to Boston "with his bundle under...
...last Magenta, Mr. Adams touches a chord which by both faculty and students should be made to vibrate in response. With characteristic calmness and decision he brings against Harvard two serious charges, the more serious because coming from one who at home and abroad has done high honor to his Alma Mater, and whose public utterances, in this latitude at least, are never heard but with attention...
...have, then, our syllabuses at the beginning rather than at the end of the year; let acquaintance with them be sufficient to pass a man creditably; and let those who wish for the honor of excelling, earn it by extra study...
...soon as the grateful odor of coffee and cigars had diffused itself through the room, the President, Mr. C. W. Wetmore, arose, and in a farewell address to the Society, and a welcome to the new members, did honor to himself and the Institute...