Word: honorability
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These meetings will be reported abroad as entirely a student movement. They must be so in reality. It cannot afford to have the credit of success and let other people pay for it. Probably there are gentlemen in Boston who would not suffer them to cast ridicule instead of honor upon the college by failing through lack of money. Perhaps we may reasonably expect some outside backing, as the sum needed is not small; but it would be humiliating if we had to ask for it either in small or large amounts...
...football season is over, and Yale has won the championship, defeating Harvard in the game Thursday in New York. But let no one think that such a defeat brought disgrace with it. Our team is deserving of the highest honor for the gallant fight they made. Every inch of ground was stubbornly contested. Our eleven played a magnificent up-hill game from the start, and too much praise cannot be showered upon the men who represented our college. In fact we have made an up-hill fight the whole season. Our captain, beginning with comparatively new material, was obliged...
...celebration on Monday evening by the Tech students in honor of their victorious football team was a success. The principal feature was a torchlight procession...
...were carried to the gymnasium on the shoulders of as joyful a body of students as Harvard has looked upon for a long time. At the entrance to the gymnasium the members of the team were cheered long and lustily. In the evening a celebration was held in honor of our victory, and bonfires, roman candles, fire-crackers and skyrockets (not the Princeton cheer) made night hideous for a short time. The general enthusiasm, however, was considerably dampened by the unfortunate accident to Captain Holden, to whose energy and patience Harvard men, individually and collectively, owe so much...
...although we adhere as firmly as ever to the doctrines of President Eliot, still it is impossible not to feel that the retirement of Doctor McCosh from the Presidency of Princeton College is a loss to that institution. His loyalty and devotion have done much to maintain the honor of Princeton while his energies have placed her in the front rank of American colleges. She will not find easily so staunch a friend to accept the post which this resignation has made empty...