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Candidates who take the Honor Examinations in Greek and Latin Composition will be excused from the corresponding Final Examinations in Greek 4 and 6, and in Latin...
...celebrate this great event in the history of the Scottish university will be struck from gold and silver. Among the contemplated ceremonies will be the conferring of the degrees of D. D. and L. L. D. upon distinguished men. In addition, a grand banquet will be given in honor of the delegates from the other universities...
...worth if we go about creating it with a blind determination to make forty men immortal whether there are forty worthy of it or not? Indeed, unless the standard of excellence required in the Academy be very high, our first men of letters will deem it no honor. much less an assurance of immortality to belong...
Education, many people go on to say, is still mainly governed by the ideas of men like Plato, who lived when the warrior caste and the priestly and philosophical class were alone in honor, and the really useful part of the community were slaves. It is an education fitted for persons of leisure in such a community. This education passed from Greece and Rome to the feudal communities of Europe, where also the warrior caste and the priestly caste were alone held in honor, and where the really useful and working part of the community, though not nominally slaves...
...They shall honor as their parents, magistrates, elders, tutors, and aged persons, by being silent in their presence (except they be called on to answer...