Word: honorability
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...officers of the Dining Association for 1890-91 will be chosen this week. There is always danger that the elections will go by haphazard, for it is nobody's particular business, and the offices imply plenty of work and responsibility without any "honor." Therefore will you let me remind the members of one or two facts of ancient history...
...most interesting article in the April number of the North American Review to a patriotic American is the opening one on "Discipline in the Navy." Admiral Porter, the author, pays honor to the success of American naval officers in the difficulties they have to contend with, and cites the unequalled example of courage and valor shown by the sailors on our fleet destroyed at Samoa as a proof that the American navy needs no lessons in discipline...
...raised with the least interference with the moral and material development of the citizen, we must eliminate the objectionable methods and reduce the problem to its simplest form. The first principle is that all inquisitorial and arbitrary methods are abhorrent to the people and inconsistent with the maintenance of honor and freedom, for they foster selfishness and encourage perjury. The second principle is that no power should tax property out of its own territory and out of reach of its protection. Some property in this country is taxed both where it is and where its owner is. Again, it should...
...courses in which an enormous amount of reading is done and the placing of such courses in charge of scholars whose tastes are literary as well as scientific. The number of students who would continue Latin and Greek longer than they do now would thus be increased, and honor-men would not have the lurking feeling that they are imposing on the world, by being recognized as proficient in languages of which they have not had either time or opportunity to study all the masterpieces. Such a plan would, moreover, increase facility in reading beyond the present insufficient standard...
...following are the honor men in the senior class at Princeton: E. B. Baxter, John C. Beecher, Edward E. Burgess, Harlin W. Hatheway, Jacob B. Hillegass, George L. Shearer, James D. Vorhees, W. B. Williams John W. Yeakles...