Word: honorability
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...perhaps should not go unmentioned, which is intermediate, including those who come to college because they think it a "good thing to be a college man," who come not so much for the sake of college education itself as for the name of it. Such men may have the honor of becoming college graduates, but that it is an honor to be a college graduate, is due to the labors of others, not to themselves...
Unfortunately for our prophets honor and fame, however, this year the custom of ages will be given up. For once the proper respect will be paid to the departed great; the birthday of the hero of the American Revolution will be honorably observed. On this day no recitation will be held, the college will be closed, even University 5 will be silent and deserted. The church bells will toll and college prayers will be suspended, in short there will be such a suspension of work and labor that we doubt the probability of having the walks cleaned of snow...
...plan which has been adopted in several courses in mathematics, of giving the new problems which are to be worked out upon each man's honor, and which are to count considerable in the year's work, has much to commend it to every earnest student. That an examination, written in a very limited time, is no test of one's knowledge or scholarship, is almost an axiom. This is especially true in mathematics where much of the work is original, and where it is perfectly possible for a man who has a firm grasp of the subject...
...Caius College (pronounced Keys), is third in size and may be called a Medical College, since a court physician to William and Mary founded it. The alterations in this college are many, but it still retains three old gateways called respectively those of Humility, of Virtue, and of Honor. Trinity Hall is the legal college, and is more celebrated for its gardens than its buildings. While the partisans of the red and the white roses, or rather of Lancaster and York, were busily engaged in the conflict that eventually put Lancaster upon the throne, they did not forget to found...
...class two collectors will be appointed who will can vase their own class. Also appeals will be made by letter and person to the graduates. The canvassers will visit every man in the class, because we believe that while some will be able to give larger amounts for the honor of the college, at any rate every man, especially of the three under classes, will subscribe something, as it will be of benefit to himself...