Word: honorability
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...Johnson held many offices of trust and honor and wrote several noted works on religion and on medicine...
...will be completely filled with freshmen on Friday night, for nothing will so encourage the speakers. When the Yale freshmen won the debate last year, the enthusiasm was tremendous, the speakers were carried from the hall on the shoulders of their classmates, and were given the fence, the highest honor that can be awarded to a freshman at Yale. This is what aroused the interest of the Yale undergraduates in debating and caused them to make the efforts that ended in Harvard's defeat this year. It is just this sort of enthusiasm that should be shown here on Friday...
...leading. Why not, then, have the baseball management appoint men to lead cheering, as they now appoint the ushers? The men who are chosen for this important service will not look upon it as a hardship, if they are the right sort of men, but rather as an honor. Cheering alone will not win a game, but it will give the players heart and snap, and the more uphill the game, the greater is the need of enthusiastic applause...
...which the debate took place. They devoted every moment of the Recess to this work; they worked to the full extent of their time and strength. If there is any adverse criticism to be passed upon them, it is to the effect that, in their anxiety for the honor of Harvard, they exceeded the limit of elasticity...
...eminently practical; it offers three positive and lasting advantages. The permanent court would have the machinery for settling disputes ready in advance. The second advantage is that the very existence of the court composed of the most eminent jurists of the Anglo-Saxon race and invested with the honor and authority of the two greatest nations of the age must powerfully affect the imagination of the people. Here are two advantages which the negative have not been able to deny. With the permanent court you cannot help getting them; without the court you cannot get them...