Word: honorability
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...meeting for the election of Class Day officers is one of the most important events in the career of every College class. The prominence given to the men whom the class chooses to honor, and the fact that they will be generally accepted as representing the best that the class affords along the various lines of college achievment, should cause the choice of officers to be undertaken with the greatest care. It would be most unfortunate if in any of the contingencies which occur in an election of so much importance, the best judgment of the class...
What the society needs at present more than anything else is money, and without money it can do nothing. It, therefore, begs all those who are interested in perpetuating the association and interests of Harvard, and to honor the names of the famous men who have dwelt in their midst, to contribute towards the work of the society. Subscriptions may be sent to Charles Dickinson, 1 Hastings Hall...
...things in life, they yet have a place in education which is of overwhelming importance. The physical training which they involve, good as it may be, is but a small part of the benefit achieved. The moral training is greater. Where scores of men are working hard for athletic honor, and hundreds more are infected by their spirit, the moral force of such an emulation is not to be despised...
...best oarsman, higher than the best scholar or debater. But the critic is not wholly right in this. There is a disposition in the college world to recognize in the highest degree anything which redounds to the credit of the college. Let a student write something which brings honor to his college, whether in science or literature, and there is no limit to the recognition he receives from his fellows. Let a football player strive to win glory for himself instead of for his college, and his fellows have no use for him. What the critic deems to be preference...
...Lehigh University Club of the City of New York will give a dinner in honor of Dr. Thomas N. Drown, the new president of the university, at the Hotel Brunswick on the evening of Oct. 25. Among those who will be present are Seth Low, president of Columbia College, and General Francis A. Walker, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...