Word: honorability
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...there is any man who has ever occupied the executive chair whom I should consider it an honor to succeed, it is the present governor of the State. - [Gen. Butler...
...always the advantages of several weeks more of practice than our own, and consequently more is to be expected of them at this early date. Two weeks of assiduous practice may work an entire change in the prospects of our team. Only persistent and constant effort is necessary. The honor of victory would be sufficiently high to repay all the pains the eleven may take...
...suspension, and two of the unfortunate upper classmen were invited to take a vacation. Their fellows thought this unfair, and appealed to the faculty, saying that they were also engaged in the disturbance. The faculty stood by their decision, and refused to reinstate the suspended students. To sustain their honor, as they claim, and to bring the faculty to terms, the entire senior and junior classes concluded to leave college, which resolution was carried into effect yesterday. It is uncertain what the result will be, though it is thought a settlement will soon be reached and the absentees return...
...University of Michigan has conferred its highest honor, that of Ph. D., upon Miss Alice E. Freeman, president of Wellesley College...
...observations on comets have been conducted with zeal and success - the assistants working day and night continuously when a new comet is discovered - so that several times this observatory has had the honor of announcing its orbit to America and Europe in advance of all others. The first accurate position obtained for a comet here is forwarded by cable to Europe, and has sometimes preceded the discovery of the comet abroad...