Word: honorability
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...speaking thus at length on the subject of cheering, it is unnecessary to tell a Harvard audience that the uproarious scenes which have recently been enacted at New Haven, instead of being an honor to the nine, would be a disgrace to them and the college, and that unfair applause has never been met with by those opponents who have played us here in Cambridge. Harvard, if necessary, can bear defeat, but the college cannot bear that our visitors should feel that there was the slightest tinge of unfairness in their treatment. Let every man, then, give his heartiest support...
...such is undoubtedly the case. But when we remember that it is still young in years and that it was founded in the midst of bitter opposition in a university where moderate drinking is very prevalent, and of whose large faculty the name of but one member, all honor to him for it, is to be found on the roll, we have no reason to be discouraged with the year's work. Since all that the society requires of a man is to take his place in the ranks and then stand, our influence must be largely in proportion...
...society men greatly outnumber the society men, efficiently disproves this. The charge of favoritism, the writer dismisses as almost groundless, and asserts that many instances have been known where an intimate friend or relative of a prominent society man has failed to be elected worthy of the honor. Some detractors of the system say that the societies tend to keep the non-society men from coming back to commencements and other reunions after graduation. The writer has collected statistics from the secretaries of several leading American colleges, and these show that the number of graduates at the Yale commencements...
When we consider that the students of some colleges entertain their townsmen with a celebration of this kind, we may look with a different face upon the celebrations which are sometimes held in honor of our athletic victories. Yet we are glad to see that these childish exhibitions are becoming more and more uncommon. A few years ago cremations and kindred celebrations were the rule and not the exception at many colleges; now, however, they are decidedly the exception. Brown college was the last to give up this absurd custom. At a meeting of the juniors last week the "majority...
...Humphreys desires to state that he has a vacancy for one pupil at present, and that during the summer vacations he will be at home to read with students for freshmen and sophomore examinations in September, and will be assisted by a Harvard Honor man in mathematics and by able teachers in modern languages. He will also then have rooms for two resident pupils. 129 West Chester Park, April...