Word: causa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last meeting of the year yesterday, the Student Council voted that regular crew numerals be awarded to the members of the 1920 class crew for winning the intercollegiate class championship and the race with the Yale junior eight; that crew men who receive "honoris causa" degrees this year, but who intend to return next fall, will be eligible for "H's" and that members of the University and 1922 track teams who placed against Yale should be awarded "H's" and numerals respectively...
...their "H" this year the regulation sweater. The question as to the color of the numerals to be awarded the 1920 class crew which was victorious over the Yale interclass championship eight was referred to the Student Council. The awarding of "H's" to crew men who receive "honoris causa" degrees this year but will return in the autumn was also referred to the Student Council...
Application may now be made by candidates for a war degree of A.B. or S.B. at Dean Greenough's Office in University Hall. The degree, now offered to men whose courses were interrupted by war service, is to be termed a "war degree" not an "honoris causa" degree...
...cheered when the CRIMSON republished Dr. Lake's article on education. It is a stalwart blow against a pernicious fallacy. Editorial Honoris Causa No. 2 depressed me, for it is no way true that "success in life is based upon detailed study of facts," at least for those few who do not wish to become Berlin statisticians. It is if possible even more false that universities have any such raison d'etre. Instructors who think so mistake the proper means of teaching us "how to think and to find out things for themselves." To paraphrase Dr. Lake further...
...worthy, would dare lay claim to such a solemn honor. All those who do, take upon themselves the holy vow to live "honoris causa...