Word: honorability
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Frederick W. Loetscher '96 was born at Dubuque, Iowa, and prepared for Princeton at the Dubuque High School from which institution he was graduated as valedictorian in a class of sixty-three. In his freshman year he won the freshman first honor prize. In his sophomore year besides leading his class he won the class of 1870 English Prize and was second man in the Biddle essay contest. In junior year he secured the Wood scholarship which is the first honor prize of the year; also the Wanamaker prize in English Literature, and the class of 1870 Anglo-Saxon prize...
...with regard to students running up Massachusetts Avenue for exercise, such a communication as that which we publish this morning from Professor Beale should now be absolutely unnecessary. That it is not shows that many members of the University are exceedingly thoughtless, or are entirely without any sense of honor. For the sake of the good name of the University we trust that the former is the case. For several years the people of Cambridge were annoyed by having the students use the sidewalks for their exercise, and last year the annoyance became so great as to be generally considered...
...writer in one place speaks of the stimulus that liberal prizes like the scholarships would be to the rich man. What powerful incentive would money be to the man who already has plenty? The chief incentive to such a man would be the honor gained, and there are higher honors open to the scholar than those which are called scholarships. If the scholarships were open to those men who had plenty of money, it would be hardly fair to the poorer students. A rich man would feel when he won a scholarship that the money would far better have gone...
...Hamilton '96 was selected to serve as alternate. The success of the contest and the enthusiasm manifested makes it more and more evident that there is a growing interest in debate among the student body in general and it only remains to allow those who struggle for the honor or representing Princeton in this field their proper position in our respect and admiration...
...Honor," by Austin Corbin, Jr., is a decidedly clever essay, though one cannot help feeling that the cleverness is misapplied. The first two paragraphs and the last seem to be written in a serious mood and contain so much truth in such a small space that almost every sentence amounts to a truism. The rest of the essay is written in a sort of flippant, serio-comic vein, which is out of place. Honor is too grave a subject to be flippantly treated...