Word: honors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Today all members of the Faculty, alphabetically, from L to O, and the Professors from the Romance Language and Literature, Botany, and Education Departments will be the guests of honor...
...just twenty-five years ago that the seven leading American societies organized to promote the study of languages and archaeology came together as a Congress at Philadelphia to do honor to the memory of Whitney...
...question of rendering him the honor that is his due. Indeed, I'm not so sure as to how much comfort Alexander-wherever he now may be-is taking in the thought that, 2242 years after his early demise at Babylon, lots and lots of people on this little pin-head in the cosmos still persist in calling him "the Great." The real point is this, that Whitney's career as a man "who did things" is still a lesson, an example, an inspiration, for the young American of today...
Heretofore the Trophy has been awarded to the school having the greatest number of candidates on the honor list, but, in accordance with the vote of the chapter taken last year, the award has now been made to the school whose candidates attained the highest average grade, this grade being calculated on the total records of all final candidates from the school competing as a group with all final candidates from other schools...
...before his entrance into Harvard was a student in Trinity College. He was mortally wounded on August 12, 1918, near Fismes, where he was serving as a second lieutenant in the 11th Regiment of the 28th Division, United States Army. This is the second scholarship in his honor, his parents having established one at Harvard last spring to enable a French student to get his education here...