Word: honorability
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...that question. Plenty of reason there would be for hesitation. Plenty of slavery to circumstances, to the comfort of the moment, to the well-being of the body which seems to leave the soul no chance; plenty of blind loyalty to old tradition; plenty of conventional standards of honor and manliness and morality which make independence and originality of life seem very hard; plenty of selfishness, even of selfishness under the rich guise of self-culture enjoined and accepted as a duty, so that public spirit and the open sympathy of democratic life seem often to be sought almost...
...spirit-for we can raise the funds if we have the spirit-to support a class crew! If we neglect to do so the result of this neglect reflects none the less on us individually than as a class. Every man should remember that. For what honor comes to the class comes to each individual also, and what shame comes to the class must be borne likewise by each individual...
...University of Oxford has decided to admit to its honor examination without further conditions all women "who are graduates of colleges in the American Association of the Collegiate Alumnae...
...studies; portrays his disappointment at being excluded, through poverty, from pursuing a college course, and his attempt to reconcile himself to the distasteful profession of the law. Mr. Bigelow further treats of Bryant's success as poet, as journalist and as orator, and draws a pleasant picture of the honor and love which attended his latter days. The keynote of Bryant's character, his perfect uprightness, is here strongly dwelt upon. Through all the temptations of a newspaper editor's life, Bryant never swerved an inch from what seemed to him the path of honor. An interesting incident...
Harvard's representatives at the Berkeley Athletic Club and Clyde Park games made a showing that reflects great honor on the college and brighten not a little Harvard's chances of winning the Mott Haven cup. With one world's record broken and one equaled by members of the H. A. A. the college may feel confident of winning one event in which Columbia hoped for first place, and possibly one which Princeton expects to win. On the other hand Yale has strengthened her hold on several events. The intercollegiate games, therefore, will be unusually close, and will probably...