Word: courteously
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...assume the ridiculously childish air of undergraduate psuedo-dignity which prejudices the stranger. It may help the sub-freshman to find himself sooner when he comes in, if he can catch a glimpse now of what is and what is not worth while. Let us at least extend courteous hospitality to the visiting "examination team...
Stronger than all--perhaps because including all--is the true and honest wholesomeness of the play. A keen judge has called Heywood an Elizabethan ancestor of Col. Newcome; and the spirit of the courteous and well-bred qualities is strong and full in "The Fair Maid of the West." The play is thus genuinely a revival, for it is given practically intact. So invigorating is the courageous, open-air climate that even the most arrant coward is shamed out of his cowardice into as energetic courage; the returning Captain Goodlack, who is much tempted to gainful villany, is too conscious...
...athletics, coming with the near advent of the more important baseball games, raises again the question as to what sort of cheering is justifiable at games. The standard by which this should be determined is this: the visiting teams are our guests, and as such are entitled to the courteous treatment from us which the name of host implies. A fair way to decide just what this means is for us to stop and consider what we would deem courteous treatment were we on the side of the visiting team, and then we should accord such treatment to our guests...
...closing Mr. Smith defined a polite man as one who would answer a strange lady civilly when she questioned him on the street; a good-mannered man, as one who would take off his hat to her; but a courteous one as one who would go out of his way to see her across the street...