Word: honorability
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...interest: "Williams may well be proud of the material which it will be possible to put into the base ball field with the opening of spring. Not only have we the men composing our last year's team, Safford '84 excepted, but there are several competitors who would do honor to any nine, and if fortune continues to smile, our record for '85 will surpass that of the past season...
...thank you for your gift of a copy of the bust of Henry Wadsworth longfellow, which has recently been placed, through your agency, in Westminister Abbey. The university welcomes this pledge of the literary fellowship between England and America, which the labors of the poet you have so honorably commemorated did much to promote. The bust has arrived in safety; and will be placed, with an inscription telling whence it came, in the library, among other mementoes of benefactors and eminent graduates of the university, and will there make known to future generations of students the features of one whose...
...scene of college activities to be warped by prejudice or enthusiasm. Moreover, no college would elect a man as umpire whom, after a trial of four years within its walls, it had found to be liable to the least suspicion of partiality or worse motives in judging. For the honor of the college would be at stake to choose a representative who would not jeopardize its reputation. Again, compare the alumnus with the professional umpire. Is it reasonable to suppose that there is less honesty and impartiality in a leading college man who is thoroughly known and has borne...
...such professional umpires as are usually employed. We think by its adoption that not only could the sole objectionable feature in college contact with professionals be removed, but also more cordial relations would be promoted among the colleges. For the colleges would be relying upon each other's honor...
...reasoning.' 'Ay; but I wish you to give the definition in the exact words of the learned author.' 'O, sir, he gives a long, intricate, confused definition, with which I did not think proper to burden my memory.' 'Are you aware who the learned author is?' 'Oh, yes! Your honor...