Word: honorability
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Oberlin boasts of being the first college that admitted women on equal terms with men, but to the University of Wisconsin belongs the honor of having graduated a larger number of women than any other co-educational institution.-Pennsylvanian...
...land rests the national endowment of the University of Michigan. The institution of a department of history and English literature, in 1855, at the University of Michigan was one of the first academic recognition's of history in this country. At this time Harvard stood alone in the honor of a distinctly endowed historical professorship. Yale bad no historical professorship until 1865. Columbia College called Dr. Francis Lieber to its new professorship of Historical and Political Science in 1857, the year after Dr. Haven's first retirement from academic life. During the first of his two years at the University...
Columbia College, in New York, may fairly claim the honor of being the first American institution in America to recognize history as worthy of a professional chair. The institution was founded, as King's College, under the royal patronage of George II. in the year 1754. Arrangements appear to have been made in the original faculty of arts for the teaching of law and history...
...began to practice law in Boston, working also on law books and writing more or less on social subjects. His future was full of the promise of happiness and usefulness, and his early and unexpected death, in April of 1886, cut short a earner that would have brought honor to himself and to the University that trained him. He always retained a keen interest in the University, and especially in the departments that touched philosophical and social subjects. The gift in his memory of the money for the United States History Library at once fills an urgent need...
...favor of athletics, which he says "not only tend to discourage looseness of living and to found a strong constitution, but, if taken rightly, they can hardly fail to develop in the athlete to a marked degree the qualities of courage, perseverance, loyalty, and a high sense of honor." This is a sentiment which must commend itself to all earnest, thinking men. It is undoubtedly the true way to look at athletics; and to reach this result, Mr. Wendell contends, the athlete must begin with a thorough respect for and appreciation of his sport; and he must especially avoid...