Word: honorability
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...announcement of a concert by the Pierian, to be given in honor of the Princeton nine, was sufficient to draw a large number of students in front of Matthews last evening. The programme consisted of a number of selections by the Pierian, interspersed with songs by the Glee Club, and the hearty applause which followed the rendition of each number was ample assurance of its appreciation by the audience...
...Pierian expect to give a concert in honor of the Princeton nine on the steps of Matthews this evening...
After a session of four hours' duration the board of overseers of Harvard College yesterday refused to concur with the corporation in conferring the degree of LL.D. upon His Excellency Governor Butler. The corporation recommended that the honor be voted, but by a yea and nay vote of 11 to 15, the board of overseers refused to concur. The members voted as follows...
...importance to the college whether the degree is or is not conferred, and interests the students much less than is generally supposed. We do not believe that the college can, with any show of reason, recede from its practice of past years. It will be understood everywhere that the honor is one conferred solely upon the office without the least regard for the individual. Whether the custom is ever a good one is entirely another question, which, however, should not be decided until the case in hand is disposed of. The possibility of Gov. Butler refusing the degree aeems...
...Cambridge on the 12th of June, in company with Sir John Lubbock, Matthew Arnold, M. Pasteur, the great French chemist; George F. Watts, the painter; General Menabrea, the Italian minister in London; Sir Alexander Grant, the principal of Edinburgh University, and other distinguished men. Professor Goodwin's honor is not only well deserved, but it is peculiarly appropriate as coming from Cambridge, where his books have been in use for several years, and where he has many friends. The Cambridge men wondered at first, when Professor Goodwin's work on Greek moods was brought under their notice, who he could...