Word: honorability
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...Harvard Club of Boston will give a dinner in honor of the champion football team on Friday, December 6. It will be given at the Copley-Plaza Hotel and will be a subscription dinner. A large and enthusiastic gathering is expected...
Already something like this Columbia experiment has been tried here at Harvard unofficially in connection with certain courses, and has been found to work with fair success, when limited to "honor men." In History 1, to mention only one example, the evening collateral conferences proved to add much to the interest of the course. But the plan as applied to undergraduates in general has its drawbacks. If undergraduate "human nature" were perfect, or if all the distractions,--subtle and otherwise,--which lead to procrastination and alas! too often to the professional tutor, could be swept away, then the "conference programme...
Criticism abounds among undergraduates. On all sides are heard complaints against this or that method of administration, and pessimistic views on the problems confronting the University. The present system of section meetings appeals to none: to the honor men it is a bore; to the indolent it is a bane. To many the section assistant is an unapproachable being, devoid of all human interests and of all the qualities that make a successful teacher. The athletic system is a source of anxiety to students who believe that at present intercollegiate sport is conducted on a commercial and professional basis. Although...
...upon his subject. Starting as assistant surgeon from Massachusetts in 1886, he has rapidly risen. Brilliant services as commanding colonel of "Rough Riders" at Las Guasimas and San Juan brought him the appointment of brigadier-general in 1898. In the same year he was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor "for distinguished conduct in a campaign against Apache Indians while serving as medical and line officer of Captain Lawton's expedition in 1886." Since then he has been appointed major-general U. S. A. (1903), commander of the Department of the East (1908); and chief-of staff...
...subject for the Baldwin prize in municipal government this year has been announced as "The Best Sources of City Revenue." This prize of $100 was established six years ago by the National Municipal League in honor of William Henry Baldwin...