Word: honour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the auspices of the Foreign Student's Committee Dr. Walter Kotschnig of Geneva will speak in the Junior Common Room of Kirkland House at 7.30 o'clock tonight after a dinner given in his honour. His subject will be "German Political Changes and Their Effects on Student Life". Dr. Kotschnig, who has written several books on education and is a well known authority on the subject, is an Austrian and the general secretary of the International Student's Service, to which the Harvard Student Council gives a yearly sum of money. This organization has charge of the student relief...
This is to pray you to publish this letter among those you use to publish in your paper. "In honour to truth and justice" I hope you will do so and I begin...
...years out here in the East, have been in contact with Americans all along but I have so far not found one who had the nerve you seem to have. As said above this 30 years have made me pretty well cosmopolitan, but still I am a German and honour my country, and to be sure I have seen many a dirty article but yours is the limit. Why throw dirt on our Prime Minister Hitler, why run down Hindenburg, both men who have done much more than you will ever be able to. Your whole writing shows that...
...wrapping paper and proudly cabled it to London. The wrapping paper manufacturers puzzled over the cable, then wrote and mailed a cautious British letter. The esteemed favour of the 15th inst. was received, but might they enquire how the wrapping paper was to be wrapped? They had the honour to remain. Sirs, y'r obedient & humble serv'ts. By the time this letter reached Canada, the customers, who had received no cabled reply to their order, were already wrapping parcels with U. S. wrapping paper, ordered by telephone, promptly shipped and delivered...
...babe to honour...