Word: honorability
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...that football demands extreme and excessive methods and fosters a spirit that calls for success at any price. We have already shown that it is responsible for physical harm and mental mediocrity. Finally it remains to prove that the immoderate desire to win demands success at the sacrifice of honor and fair play. There is a distinct tendency today towards unfair, and brutal playing, and this unfits football for a place among college sports. Unfair methods are profitable towards victory, and there is every incentive to their use. The close formations and mass plays make it possible for a player...
...Greek play the chorus is one of the most important elements. Tragedy arose from the choral songs in honor of the god Dionysus, the dramatic part being an addition of later years. In Aeschylus the chorus plays an especially important role, as it is almost the equivalent of an actor. Singing, dancing, and dramatic ability are all necessary for the success of the part played by the twelve men of the chorus...
...Legation at Washington; and Captain Wyndham, British Consul at Boston. After visiting Memorial Hall, the Hamenway Gymnasium, the statue of John Harvard, and other places of historical interest in the Yard, the party, with President and Mrs. Eliot; attended a banquet at the Brookline Country Club given, in honor of Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, by the Algonquin Club...
...persons whom they dislike." For my part, I would rather be caught, at twenty, lifting a bronze tablet out of Brooks House, than clamoring in the College papers for harsher punishment for a fellow student. The former offense is evidence of profound indiscretion, but is not inconsistent with honor or the noblest qualities. It shows misapprehension of some things, but not necessarily a corrupted character. Is punishment in itself a thing to be desired? I never heard...
...such intrepid courage that he was willing to undertake in all calmness of mind what in another person would have been insanity. Invincible courage, even in a doubtful cause, is sure to inspire and find applause among other brave men. Thus when we honor you, soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic, and as often as we decorate the graves of your comrades, and your own, as you fall by the way in this long march to the common home of all men, whether soldiers or men of peace, we may well recall the undying memory...