Word: honorability
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...were sorry and surprised to learn yesterday that the president and corporation had not taken and would not take any steps towards inviting Mr. Matthew Arnold to lecture here. It seems to us that, as has been the case before, the college missed not only an opportunity of honoring so distinguished a man as Mr. Arnold, but also was in some measure forgetful of the interests of the students. The honor might be slight, but the interest and value in hearing the son of Tom Browne's Doctor Arnold, and a man who has played so distinguished a part...
Informal examinations, by correspondence, will be held at intervals by each instructor, at his discretion; they will involve no extra expense, and will be required of every student. Besides the above, pass and honor examinations, will be held, open to such students as desire to take them. The pass examinations, at the end of a course in any subject, will be conducted by the Instructor in charge; the honor examinations, on the first Wednesday in December in each year, will be conducted by some distinguished specialist, who has no share in the instruction of the students. Both the pass...
...immeasurably superior to a much heavier team of less experience. The natural conclusion then is this, put the men that play and train on the team. They are the ones who have enthusiasm enough to support the eleven and as they do the work they should have the honor. Such an eleven might not contain the best material in college but it would make the best representative team. Do not defer picking out an eleven to wait for better men, but form one, subiect to change, from the material that offers, and if better men desire positions let them earn...
...country to lecture before the students in Cambridge. Mr. Arnold has always had numberless admirers among Harvard men and has more than once in his writings expressed his high regard for this university. It would therefore be peculiarily appropriate that the college in some way should show him especialy honor...
...their best to win, and hence are often wonderfully improved. But a word to scratch men. Don't feel disappointed if you are beaten. As an old English athlete, a man who had won and lost more races than any of our college athletes have, said, "It is more honor to get beaten off scratch than to win off a start...