Word: honorability
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...News attempts to extenuate the recent disgraceful action of the thirteen seniors at Trinity, in upholding the slighted honor of the "Grand Tribunal." It states that "a committee of the remaining members of the class are out in a statement in which they deplore the exaggerated accounts that have been spread concerning the affair, and emphasize the assertion that the action was intended solely as a punishment and should not be regarded as 'hazing.' One of the class had previously tested nitrate of silver upon himself, and had found it did no injury." Nevertheless, we believe that this committee...
...action of the gentleman, at Williams, in refusing the position of valedictorian, because he regarded it as an honor obtained from the marks he had received by a system that he did not approve, has called forth many articles on the method employed of distinguishing the different grades of scholarship attained by men at college. By some, the marking system is upheld, as the only means to prevent idleness and neglect, and as an unfailing incentive to "healthy, honest competition," as one contemporary has it; others trace from it all the prevalent evils that result from overwork and cramming, while...
...London Times, commenting on the approaching completion of five American monitors, says: "America owes it to her honor and greatness to possess a fleet which shall be more than a phantom...
Philip Walker of Paris, a member of the American electrical commission, recently created a knight of the Legion of Honor, offers a prize of $20 to any member of the senior class of the Chandler Scientific School at Dartmouth, for the best thesis on any subject in the department of physics...
Last Friday evening Professor Churchill of Andover read before the college and invited friends. The entertainment was given in honor of the birthday of the founder of the college, and took the place of the supper, which in former years it has been customary to give to the college...