Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...left Dedham with a lead of one. During the last round, however, her shooting was poor, but Harvard's shooting continued steady, and the score was 18 to 13; thus giving the match to Harvard with a total of 67 to 63. The team was treated in a most courteous manner by the Dedham Club. The following is the Harvard score...
...Hopkins House of Commons has always met with the most courteous support from the faculty of the university, the president and professors encouraging the students to join, and frequently proposing subjects for debate. On one occasion, I remember, the Professor of Political Economy handed a bill, entirely prepared, to the ministry to be introduced...
...general opinion in regard to last Wednesday's game. In the first place '86 showed a most contemptible spirit in refusing to wait a day as requested. The '87-'88 game was twice postponed at the request of the respective captains. Why could not '86 have been as courteous? Was their standing as foot-ball players or gentlemen raised by saying that '87 could play with substitutes or forfeit the game? Were they proud of the fact that the captain of the '87 team could only be present as a spectator...
...growing dark when we had completely mastered the last astounding bit of information, and we started at once for the cars, there we parted from our courteous escorts after many expressions of pleasure on both sides for our pleasant visit...
...barbarous custom of stamping in the dining-hall, on the appearance of a visitor in the gallery with his hat on, will, we trust, never be renewed. It has become a thing of the past. Still, although the students have shown a more courteous spirit, nevertheless the discourtesy of wearing a hat in the hall is just as great as it ever was, and of course the discourtesy is greater if the offender be a student than if he be a stranger. It is with great surprise, then, that we learn that some of the students, boarding at the hall...