Word: honorability
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...stopping at each of the professors to answer what appeared to be very numerous questions. My name was one of the first, and, having given myself a final brace, I stepped proudly up to the table, conscious that I was the only American there and determined to sustain the honor of my country. I was, therefore, not a little taken aback when the individual with the pile of papers held out my passport to me and calmly told me that I could never enter the University on that passport; there was a mistake in it which must be set right...
...long-drawn agony ended, I was matriculated at last; and having treated myself to a beer, and then another beer, in honor of the event, I proceeded joyfully home, with the consciousness of having made a good fight and done a good week's work...
...result of accident; and some desirable men were necessarily dropped when the candidates were numerous. If in every case the best man was not chosen, it must be remembered that in the world at large "estates, degrees, and offices" are sometimes purchased with the honor of the wearer. It is not our desire to indulge in personal comment, however; but we must aver that in its election of one officer by acclamation the class honored itself more than it could possibly honor him. And that unanimity of feeling may extend and deepen, and that '82's Class...
...entered Harvard University, receiving honors on his examination for entrance, in the classics and mathematics; and after maintaining a high standard for scholarship during his course, he received the highest final honors in the classics, graduated the first scholar in a class of 182, and added his name to the list of those who in the past have attained like distinction, an honor of which any one might be proud. Subsequently he received appointment as head assistant in the Arnold Classical School in New York City, and a congenial and promising future seemed open before...
...NOTHING but leaves," as the second-year honor man replied when the proctor asked what he had in his sleeve...