Word: honorability
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...front row in the first balcony was the place of honor, and the names of those seated there will give an excellent idea of the general character of the whole audience. The centre seat was to have been occupied by Professor G. N. Lane. In his absence, due to an unfortunate illness, his place was taken by Professor C. L. Smith, professor of Latin in the university. On his right were seated President Charles W. Eliot and Mrs. Eliot, Solomon Lincoln, president of the board of overseers, Mrs. F. D. Allen, Professor W. W. Goodwin and Mrs. Goodwin. Professor...
...believe that patriotism, despite all its modern caricatures at the hands of sentimentality and hypocrisy, will never be too commonplace to be honored; and that any institution of culture, unless its culture is simply dilettant, will always be eager to pay its due share of honor. Harvard owes a public recognition of sympathy in the inauguration of the holiday, and, in the name of the great body of students, we appeal to the gentlemen who are members of the Corporation to declare next Thursday a holiday throughout the University...
...postgraduate research departments more popular among foreign students. The reason that these universities are not more popular among advanced American students is because they have no post-graduate work, in the American sense of the term. The "Tripos" system at Cambridge of dividing all men into three classes of honor at the final examinations, demands most sever work with a coach for a long succession of years, and, after the final examination upon the success or failure in which depends the whole work in the previous years, there is nothing to do but to coach others, or begin independent research...
...immense amount of work, and is, at least, entitled to be unmolested. The placards have been put on sale and can be obtained for a few cents. The management expects that many men will desire the placards and has provided this legitimate means for obtaining them. A grain of honor will make a student scorn to use any other means...
...matter of much importance. That the individual may reach the highest expression of his power, he must develop that which is part of his own nature. Every man should learn to value and to use his own individuality. It is a priceless gift, next in sequence of value to honor and health. It is the one power which all possess and which may lead to permanent renown: and if in his youth a man tries to put it from him, he comes as near as may be to the intellectual standard of that "base Indian" who "threw away a pearl...