Word: honorability
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...London, barely won a race from Columbia's wretched crew and were beaten by Yale, Everyone knows how Yale in spite of several new men in the boat and a radically changed stroke, by houest and intelligent work, backed by honest enthusiasm, turned out a crew which won honor for their college and themselves. Comment is unnecessary. In baseball, with by far the best nine in the league, we gave the championship to our old enemy. It is true that our nine did very fine work, the finest for many a year, but became rattled at critical points...
...should by no means feel disheartened as our representatives acquitted themselves credibly. Both the race and the ball game were won on their merits. Each event was closely and strongly contested with nearly as much honor accruing to the vanquished as to the victors. Let us hope that these defeats will but stimulate our teams to renewed exertions in the future, that when they next meet Yale, better success may crown their efforts...
...regard to conferring honorary degrees on the governor of Massachusetts has been, we think, clearly enough indicated heretofore. It may briefly be stated as follows: If the one holding the position of governor has done any thing which entitles him to the degree, the college will do itself honor, as well as the man, by conferring it. On the other hand, however, the college ought not to confer a degree on every one who happens to be governor of the state, simply because he is governor. As the authorities showed last year in the case of Governor Butler, the degree...
...have shared in these benefits will have cause to remember the club long after they have become graduates and ceased to frequent the quiet shades of Harvard. That the club has prospered so much is due to the awakened interest in wheeling which the present officers have aroused. All honor is due them, and the club, if it hopes for success in the future, cannot do better than pray that those chosen to the positions of trust under it may equal the present incumbents in efficiency...
...members of the senior class feel that they have lost a sincere friend, an earnest worker, and a Christian gentleman, -faithful, simple, pure; all who knew him were strongly attracted toward him, and his untimely end is felt as a personal loss; and the class desires to pay honor to his many noble qualities, to mark them as examples of manly virtue, and to tender its heartfelt sympathy to his parents in this their bitter hour...