Word: honorability
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...rights and privileges. The state of my health and the increasing weight of years may prevent me from taking an active part in the matter, but it would be a great satisfaction to give my voice in behalf of a measure which I feel certain would redound to the honor and materially promote the prosperity of the college. Brown University cannot afford to hesitate much longer in a matter like this of simple justice. No one who has felt the pulse of public opinion can doubt that the time has come when a liberal educational policy, irrespective...
...banquet was given in Washington last night in honor of Gen. W. T. Sherman's sixty-third birthday and approaching retirement from the army, at which speeches were made by Chief-Justice Waite, Justice Miller, Gen. Sheridan, Senator Hawley, Senator Logan, Mr. Henry Watterson and Gen. Sherman...
...good sense of one of Harvard's most popular professors was shown last week in an examination where there were over two hundred men. Instead of employing proctors to watch the men, he put them on their honor, remaining himself for the sole purpose of answering questions. When this is done in every course the university will have approached much nearer the ideal standard. - [Gazette...
...after the student comes to Cambridge, he is obliged to attend religious exercises, yet he is not obliged, in the first place, to come there. Secondly, he holds that Harvard's position is not "illogical and absurd," because in other affairs besides college exercises men are trusted on their honor, although it is known that all men cannot invariably be relied upon. The present church and chapel regulations may, he concludes, be inexpedient, but in order to obtain voluntary prayers, there is need of sounder reasons than those offered by "A Student...
...Cornell Era argues excitedly over the recent introduction of the honor system at that college. "It has been known for some time," it cries, "that certain professors were very anxious to introduce into the university a system of honors resembling closely that in vogue at Harvard. In the first place it is an attempt to transplant into Cornell soil a plant which has flourished passably well among the cultured shades of Harvard. Perhaps it might be more exact to say that it is an attempt to ingraft upon the Cornell stock an offshoot of the Harvard system...