Word: honorability
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There is a movement on foot at Bates College to erect a library building in honor of Hon. J. G. Blaine...
...matter. It is especially appropriate that active work in such a memorial should begin with his classmates and their generous subscription of ten thousand dollars and promise of further support, should be a good example to call forth further subscriptions from every man who wishes to honor the memory of Phillips Brooks, and have a share in the completion of a project which he so greatly favored and worked for. It is sincerely to be hoped that the necessary sum will be raised by Commencement time...
...their paper to the effect that they have neither given nor received assistance, has given rise to considerable discussion by the press of various colleges. While this regulation has a certain merit of appealing to the honesty of every man and of tending to raise the standard of honor, it may be doubted whether this mere signing of a pledge will make any material difference in the amount of cheating. A man is no more on his honor in writing such a declaration than in signing his name, for the work is just as much his own in either case...
...opportunity seems to me a noble one for the classmates of Mr. Brooks and his friends, and the friends of the university, to give to the Phillips Brooks library and reading room as the worthiest sign of honor to his memory...
...Holy Trinity in Philadelphia, he was called in 1869 to the rectorship of Trinity church, Boston. In 1882-83 he spent his vacation in England, preaching in many of the London churches, and also on one occasion before the Queen. He was the first American clergyman to have this honor. In 1886 he was elected assistant bishop of Pennsylvania, but declined the office. His election as Bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts came...