Word: honorability
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...jubilee of the Iroquois Club, containing the old-time Democrats of the West, was held at Chicago yesterday, in honor of the anniversary of Andrew Jackson's birth...
...salute of seventeen guns was fired from Ft. Monroe Saturday, in honor of the arrival of Secretary of the Treasuary Folger...
...wild over lectures, which will be few, and will be given by men worth hearing. Two lectures will probably be given under the auspices of the society before the end of the current academic year, by Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D., and Prof. James, men whom Harvard students honor as they do few others for ability, candor and liberal-mindedness, and who would favor no scheme that was not fair and manly...
...Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality, the consummation of our boasted modern culture? We are humbled in sack-cloth and ashes. We only hope that in edging his way into fame, Mr. Wilde will not dislodge from their niche of honor any of the old worthies we have been accustomed to venerate as the lares of the temple of fame...
...select an old and famous seat of learning as the recipient of their bequest. Nowhere is the dictum, 'Unto him that hath, it shall be given,' more exactly true than in respect to college funds. The few thousands and the library of John Harvard have yielded a return of honor beyond the power of any succeeding legacy...