Word: honorability
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- In your columns there appeared, a few days ago, a communication from Professor James commenting upon the evidence as to the moral tone of social responsibility at Harvard, which was shown in the objections urged against a proposition to form clubs guaranteeing the honor of individual members. Prof. James thought that these objections revealed a very low ebb of effective moral opinion...
...healthful tone of college spirit. The president speaks of the "trickery condoned by a public opinion which demands victory." This is certainly not a prevalent abuse; if it exists at all it is among a very small element in our college world. The spirit of fairness and honor, of which most colleges boast, would soon frown down any "trickery"; and, if that potent factor in a college world-public opinion-frowns upon "trickery," how can it exist? In spite of all this, however, we believe with President Eliot that there is much that is rotten in our athletic system...
...years an institution of learning so full, rounded and complete in every department of education, of thought and of practical work that it would have no equal in any country of the world. Its influence would be felt through the magnificent equipment of its graduates, to the lasting honor and glory of the country...
...scheme proposed was this-that the faculty should allow any club of students who should severally guarantee the club's honor and get a member of the faculty to be their sponsor, to have examinations without a proctor. This scheme, to my great surprise, found no one but its author to defend it. Men said that it would be hard to get many groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly...
...vision of the facts is distorted. But it seems to me that, if it is not, this is the reform in "college opinion" which we most deeply need. If individuals cannot be sent to Coventry, no matter what they do, how can we ever get the tone of honor here which we might get-a tone in many respects much higher than that of the outer world...