Word: honorability
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...congratulate the men who were selected last evening to represent Harvard in the coming debate with Princeton. They have been chosen to a position of much honor, but of honor tempered with a heavy responsibility. It is for them to maintain unbroken Harvard's list of victories in debate, and they are not likely to find this an easy task. At Yale, interest in debating has only of late years seen a revival; but at Princeton this is not the case. Ever since the debating league between Harvard and Yale was started. Princeton has been eager to become a member...
...admiring wonder to see how modestly you bear yourselves, and how little you seem to be afflicted with that cephalic enlargement which I should think such excessive praise and publicity would be sure to produce. But, gentlemen, you have more and harder work cut out for you. To the honor and credit of your University, you have shown people that a great match can be won without the intervention of the police or the aid of a coroner. Though you have quitted yourselves like men, you have played your game like gentlemen...
...regular meeting of the Harvard Law School Association, which will be held the day before Commencement, will be the occasion of a special celebration in honor of Professor Langdell, who will have completed the twenty-fifth year of his connection with the Law School as Dane Professor and Dean. The celebration will take place in Austin Hall. One of the principal features will be an address by Sir Frederic Pollock, author of "Pollock's Work on Torts" and several other legal books. The address will be followed by a dinner which will probably be served in Lower Massachusetts...
...Burdett Hart, of the Yale Corporation, writes of the Yale college discipline: "The college discipline takes account of, and trusts, the honor and manliness of the students. Instructors and students meet on a common ground of confidence and of scholarly ambition. Athletics have their place. They encourage manliness, pluck, perseverance, honor, self-control. Defeat on the field is to be borne in as manly a way as victory. Yale is taught never to dishonor itself in defeat. It is always to assume victory. It puts high a generous heroism, a magnanimous appreciation of others...
...explanation of the higher standard of honor at Harvard found in the very thing which seems to be lacking under the conditions described above: namely, a thorough understanding between fellow-students and between instructors and students, that each man is to stand on his own merits and to be taken absolutely at his word? Such an understanding entirely disarms the simple-minded person who considers the college course as a warfare between teachers and taught in which "all is fair" that wins...