Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...term began Feb. 6, after two weeks of mid-year examinations in which the unqualified success of the honor system was again assured...
...increase of the navy is undesirable.- (a) Original cost would be great.- (b) Cost of maintenance would be large.- (c) Existence of a large navy magnifies the chances of war.- (1) Country has to be more sensitive to so-called "insults against national honor": Nation LXII, 47.- (x) Efficiency of armaments depends on belief that war is imminent: Nation LIV, 44; LVI, 360. (2) Increase of foreign complications and growth of war spirit in the United States has been commensurate with recent growth of navy: Nation LVI. 44.- (x) Those in authority have unnecessarily seized opportunities of getting the nation...
...edition so early as the following year. In 1646, the date of Charles I's surrender to the Scotch, came the "Vulgar Errors." 1658, the year of Cromwell's death saw the publishing of Urn Burial. In 1671 Charles II visited Norwich, and, as the mayor refused the proffered honor of knighthood, the King fulfilled his intention of distinguishing some eminent citizen by dubbing Browne Sir Thomas. In 1682, three years before the death of Charles, Sir Thomas Browne departed this life. The speaker made this association of the chief chief circumstances of Browne's life with the chief dates...
Discussions on the adoption of an honor system in examinations continue and the question of the advisability of this step and the force of such systems as are at present used, has been debated many times in the Unions, societies, and less formal debates. The Princeton honor system is the main subject for discussion, as the conditions there are more like those at Yale than any other college. The Princeton system is far from being an ideal one and its adoption here would be generally deplored, but as it is a decided improvement over the present Yale methods...
...year examinations are now attracting the attention of the students and naturally other affairs are not so prominent in the college world. The present examinations prove again the success of the honor system, and it is more and more the settled opinion here that the system is firmly established beyond any question...