Word: honorability
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...they give what money they promised to give. The amount unpaid, we understand, is amply sufficient to settle all outstanding bills, and the management of the nine has a right to rely upon its payment. Every freshman who has not paid his subscription should make it a point of honor to do so before leaving Cambridge...
...Williams, College City of New York, Middlebury, Coumbia, Rutgers, Hamilton, Hobart, Madison, Cornell. Long before 1825, however, when the earliest of the modern societies was founded, Phi Beta Kappa had ceased to be a secret organization and became, as now, an honorary literary society, to which are elected the honor men of each class. In most of the chapters the members are elected from the senior class and from the classical students. It is a somewhat peculiar circumstance that of the ten fraternities enumerated below, six trace their origin to Union College, confirming the title she has often received...
...champion editorial writer in college, or champion literatus, is surely an honor worth striving for. If this offering of prizes is successful in awakening increased literary endeavor, it certainly merits commendation. That it will be commendable can hardly be doubted. Even $10 has been known to appeal to many a brain and pen. While it is pretty generally true that what is written for money is not of the best quality, yet it is also true that what would be written, for money without it is often not written at all. Then, too, in time the poorer motive of money...
...neglects his studies altogether. The former's science of navigation may be excellent, but if he does not know the sun when he sees it, his ship will fail of a successful voyage all the same. It is for this reason that the names most prominent on the honor list during the college course are so seldom heard of after graduation. The man who will succeed and whose training will do the greatest good to himself and to others is the man who, while not neglectful of his studies, adds to this an appreciation of the practical experience which...
...valedictory at Rutgers is a rhetorical honor at present, but by a recent decision of the Faculty, beginning with the class of '87, it will be awarded as the first honor in general grade...