Word: honorability
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...degree of preference. It may be noted from the start that more than three fourths of the Seniors have refused to answer the inquiry, probably because they recognized the misleading character of this method. The philosophy department offers five introductory courses. Not a single one has the honor to be in the first half of this list of sixty-two courses. Does that really suggest that they belong to the least desirable offerings of the University and that a student would do better to choose courses among those higher on the list...
...take a degree with distinction or fail, would remove most of the difficulties, provided that degree were brought within the reach of the average man after four years' moderate work. Such an innovation would certainly tend to heighten the intellectual standard of the entire College. In addition, the honor degree would in all probability prove so much more valuable and asset as to induce the majority of those who are now graduated in three years to stay on; Senior year would no longer be more pleasure-seeking; and athletes would in a limited sense become scholars. On the other hand...
...chivalrous Devon, Wadsworth, and the gallant Shaw, for although he never graduated he deserves to be ranked among the alumni of this University. When the sergeant, in calling the roll, comes to the name of Latour, his comrades in the ranks salute and answer--'Dead on the Field of Honor.' So should we rise when the roll is called and answer not for just one comrade, but for scores of thousands of comrades--'Dead on the Field of Honor!'" The exercises closed with "America" sung by the entire audience...
...editors of the Illustrated Magazine evidently expect a very quick sale for their June number, otherwise they would not give the place of honor to a forecast of the intercollegiate meet, which took place twenty-four hours after the appearance of the magazine. The old-timer will take more pleasure in philosophizing over the past records which follow. It is a pity that the dates are not given in the table of collegiate records. How many Harvard men of today know that Wendell Baker's quarter-mile, though run straightaway, was merely one of a series of extraordinary performances...
...large smoker which will be held this evening an ode to Mr. Eliot, written by Owen Wister '82, will be read, and a song in honor of President Lowell, by J. A. Carpenter '97, will be sung, as well as a new crew song, by E. H. Pendleton '82. Mr. Pendleton has also edited a special Harvard song book, copies of which will be given...