Word: courteousely
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Certain members of the Dining Association displayed their "freshness," to use a very mild expression, at lunch yesterday. Two gentlemen, evidently strangers, thoughtlessly stood in the gallery with their hats on, and were greeted with a storm of stamping, which the hissing of some of the more sensible and courteous men was unable to subdue. The gentlemen were much bewildered at this strange greeting, and being very naturally unable to divine the cause of the uproar, beat a hasty retreat. Now, although we have a great deal of sympathy for the delicate sensibilities of those men who are unable...
...question of Yale's acquiescence left to the settlement of the inter-collegiate base-ball convention, which may decide that any college nine which plays a professional nine shall itself be rated as professional. Such a step would prove a more effectual argument to Yale than the courteous ones hitherto used...
...matter of this kind. Undoubtedly she can, provided that it is clearly made out that there are substantial reasons for her action. But when there seems to be no just ground for the change beyond a slight inconvenience to the nine, it would be neither just nor courteous to the other members of the league for Harvard to sever her connection with the association...
...close, permit me through your columns to express to the students at Harvard the gratification with which all Columbia students regard the great friendliness which has grown up between the two colleges; and in behalf of my fellow-students to thank you all for your always courteous treatment, which causes us when we are defeated by you, although feeling badly for ourselves, nevertheless to rejoice that there is one more feather for Harvard...
...resign his position here, which, for apparent reasons, he declined to do. But supposing for an instant that we had been mistaken, we doubt very much whether there was anything in our article that could justify the contemptible and childish expressions of the News, which says among other equally courteous things: "For half a column it praises his loyalty to Harvard, and smiled complacently at the discomfiture of Yale. It did, indeed, make a beautiful story to circulate through the country by the media of exchanges. To Mr. Robinson we extend our sympathies, at the same time, however, urging...