Word: honorability
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...becoming responsible for annual scholarships in the Harvard Annex. As the number of students increases there is a corresponding increase of applicants for scholarships. The institution has no endowments for this or any other purpose. Some one who has plenty of money might do much good to others and honor to himself by endowing the annex, and thus establishing the highest education of women on a firm basis. The institution was incorporated last summer as "The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women," and has a charter broad enough for all present purposes. - [Transcript...
...this rumor is unfounded. We can conceive of nothing more unfortunate than the revival of this custom at Harvard; nothing of late years has ever tended so much to hurt the reputation of Harvard in the outside world as the continuation of this harmful custom. To '85 belongs the honor of first abandoning it. Let not the charge be laid upon '86 of reviving the practice after once the precedent had been established to ensure its discontinuance. We feel assured that any attempt of this sort on the part of '86 would meet with the unanimous condemnation...
...custom of which Dr. Arnold of Rugby approved - is not its parent, it is at least its sister evil, since both spring from the propensity of tyranny on the part of the older and stronger over the younger and weaker. But these ancient customs may be esteemed most honorable to the freshman in comparison with the indignities and barbarities which are at the present time occasionally heaped upon him, and which he frequently revenges by insults equally severe upon his persecutors. The past college year witnessed an unusually large number of cases of hazing of extreme severity. Kidnapping...
...cannot see that this statement at all alters the status of the question. We still believe this address by the graduates unjust, and, to use a harsher expression, officious. The students of Harvard have placed full credence in the word of honor of their crew and coach. We hope and believe they will still continue this confidence in them. At least until new facts in the case are adduced, an event which does not not now seem probable, they are likely to do so. The HERALD feels that no good can come from any further discussion of this question. Every...
Government Official - "Patrick, were you a minor when you landed in America?" Candidate for Naturalization - "No, your honor, I was a bricklayer...