Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board shall hold regular meetings and keep records of the same, and it shall be its duty to regulate the conduct of the business of the society; to prescribe the methods of keeping its accounts and auditing them, and to appoint, remove and fix the pay of the superintendent and his assistants, and in general to supervise and control the operations of the society, and to pass and publish suitable rules defining its methods...
...examining, or enforce any regulations by means of bars, gates and fines; and not a German university, because the elective system does not mean liberty to do nothing, and no American university has absolved itself, as the German university has done, from all responsibility for the moral training and conduct of students; but a university of native growth, which will secure to its teachers an inspiring liberty and an unlimited scope in teaching, offer its students free choice among studies of the utmost variety, maintain a discipline adequate to the support of good manners and good morals, but determined...
...strenuous testimony of so many immaculate public journals any longer? Here is how the American lectures us : "The college boys who behaved so rudely in various cities - especially Boston and Rochester - at the lectures of Mr. Oscar Wilde, were probably somewhat astonished to find themselves severely lectured for their conduct, in the newspapers. When they carried out practically what they had been reading in their daily journals [Rochester has no daily, so that must be aimed directly at Harvard], they doubtless had the expectation that it would be taken as a very sensible and entirely proper method of expressing their...
...staking any great hopes on any other amateur, such as Oscar Wilde even. So much for any claims Mr. Wilde may have upon us for any promise or any achievement of his own. Aside from these considerations, society justly claims and exercises the right of providing laws of social conduct for its members and of punishing infringements of these laws. Mr. Wilde has infringed these laws; and the public has passed and is executing judgment upon him in its own way; a way somewhat harsh and severe it must be admitted, and sometimes reprehensibly so, but on the whole entirely...
...weak foundation. My daughter says that she cannot walk through the college yard without being stared at by every conceited fellow that chances to pass her. It seems to me that young men with the reputed good breeding of Harvard students would recognize the impropriety - yes, insult of such conduct. I can assure them that I shall make it decidedly unpleasant for any one who hereafter offers the insult to my daughter which I have just mentioned...