Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spirit of brutality and unfairness is produced, the brutality more especially by football. The desire to win becomes so rampant that any means is resorted to. The newspaper reports for the past few weeks are sufficient evidence that no spirit of courteous fairness characterizes these contests...
...Princetoman, a few days ago, speaking of the challenge of the Harvard Cricket Club to Princeton, says: "As to the courteous challenge of the Harvard Cricket Club, it must be accepted or declined, as the cricket men may decide. We wish the new cricket interest every success so long as it does not take men away from either baseball or lacrosse who might serve them to increase the chances of success. There ought certainly to be enough men here especially from Philadelphia and New Vork, who understand the game, and who take no active part in any other branch...
...professors is perfectly justifiable. Something surely was needed to check the habit which was growing so troublesome to professors and students alike and probably no better means could have been found than that which notify the student that if he desires the benefit of a lecturer, he must be courteous enough to be present when the lecture begins. The rule has succeeded when it has been tried. We are glad that so serious an evil as general tardiness can be stopped by means so simple...
...Holmes Field at two o'clock in the afternoon. Several times during the afternoon they left the court, fastening a racquet to the net as a token of possession, and amused themselves by watching the base-ball game. Several men were waiting for a court, but were evidently too courteous to take the one in question. This sort of thing continued until six o'clock, when the freshmen departed-presumably for dinner. Such an exhibition of selfishness is indefensible. There is only one way to cope with it. And the next time those freshmen try the same plan, we earnestly...
...cake was made by the fair collegians and so the men ate it out of courtesy. Some of them were missing Tuesday. They were probably whiling away the lonely hours in the seclusion of their rooms, debating whether life is worth living. It does not always pay to be courteous. Revived by these refreshments, the men passed the remaining time till eight o'clock, idling about the dressing rooms...