Word: honorability
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...other utterance at the Unitarian festival on Thursday evening elicited such enthusiastic demonstrations of approval as when the Rev. Mr. Peabody referred approvingly to the refusal of Harvard University to grant its highest honor to Governor Butler. A tremendous burst of applause greeted the announcement and was thrice repeated...
...overseers undoubtedly acted as they thought best for the interests of the college and its influence as an educational institution of world-wide fame. Time will show whether or not they erred in drawing the line at Gen. Butler. It must be confessed that they have increased the honor attaching to a LL. D., when coming from Harvard. The rule they have now tacitly laid down will impel the board hereafter to critically dissect the claims of future governors to the degree Gen. Butler has been refused. - [Transcript...
...million people attended the fete at Moscow in honor of the Czar's coronation on Saturday...
...imagine, is that the whole system of honorary degrees, except in exceptionable cases, is based on rather questionable grounds, and particularly is it so in the case of conferring them upon any one who may happen to hold a high office. It is claimed that this is done in honor to the people who are represented by the office, but just why the university should give its highest degree to a man who is pandering to the worst elements and to his own love of notoriety, does not clearly follow from that vague statement. The recipient of a degree ought...
...Harvard in such multitudes; but the growth of the university in recent years has been so rapid and the increase in the number of students has been so great, that the available means of personal accommodation have been quite unequal to the demand. This fact undoubtedly reflects high honor upon the faculty, instructors and government of the institution, but it may be a question whether this very success may not in itself work out its own limit. It is not too much to say that at the present time (the college dormitories being full) comfortable apartments for many...