Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a good old Harvard custom of courtesy which is still honored by a few members of the university. A tradition impelling men who in any way speak for or are so situated as to represent the university in any way, to always act and speak in a courteous and gentlemanly manner, has long existed. It is not, we hope, about to die out. The last number of the Crimson plainly, but unwittingly, we hope, violates this tradition, and induges in an unseemly slur upon the reputation for gentleman-liness of the visitors from Yale to our recent 'Varsity...
...rule requiring only one warning; thus the Yale rushers would not be allowed two warnings without punishment, or, in other words, they could not make two fouls without being disqualified. Some such method must be adopted. We can no longer meet Yale's brutal behavior in the mild, courteous spirit which we have hitherto shown. Neither do we wish to see fulfilled the prophesy of the Yale man, who said after the game Saturday, "You call our playing a mucker game, but you will have to come to it if you ever expect to beat us." But at all events...
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...