Word: cordial
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hayes has come and gone. He surely must feel that he was met by the most cordial expressions which accompany a hearty welcome. Not only students did their utmost to make him welcome, but the faculty generally showed their appreciation of his merits as an instructor. The work that he did here in making the course in elocution what it is will not soon be forgotten. Such an audience as met him at Library Hall, in which the faculty was out in full force, would be a compliment to any artist in the country. The fervent and long continued applause...
...well to agitate the matter of having some of the students meet them and show them the points of interest. I wish you would call attention in your paper to the matter. As you have doubtless noticed, all the toboggan clubs are uniting to make this a very cordial and agreeable reception to the Montreal club and we should be glad to have the co-operation of the students in any way they deem best. I shall be happy to furnish you with any information you desire, as chairman of the Press Committee...
...evenings, it seems to us that the congregation should be made up more largely of students and less of Cambridge people. These ministers, in many cases, come from great distances for the sake of delivering one address to Harvard men who should feel duly bound to extend them a cordial welcome, and who, for their own sakes, should take full advantage of the rare opportunities thus offered them...
...course we do not advise any feeble-bodied or ridiculously unfit persons to occupy places that would better be filled by others; but men who fancy they possess any ability for any branch of track athletics ought not to be timid about presenting themselves where they will meet a cordial reception...
...great size of the college and the consequently great expense of any formal entertainments prevents these relations from generally becoming more than professional. A few exceptionally good scholars find warm and sympathetic friends in their instructors, and students who are personally introduced to instructors are sure of a cordial welcome. But here the matter ends. I know of hardly any instance where an offer has been neglected to improve opportunities to know students personally. I wish that I could say as much for the rather diffident youths, who, doubtless unmeaningly, have more than once failed to respond to friendly advances...