Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seats of the higher education. She has failed at times to display the enthusiasm commonly exhibited elsewhere is receiving visiting teams; the premature refusal on the part of the Student Council to sponsor the conference might also have been interpreted as evidence of coldness. By fostering friendly intercourse between "courteous host and all-approving guest" --to use Byron's words--, Harvard will help to dispel any illusions the country at large may entertain as to her supposedly unfriendly attitude...
...dingy and well worn paper-cloth upholstery, and were not very well cleaned. The Sleeper which we were fortunate enough to get at Dusseldorf had somewhat this dingy appearance, but the sheets and blankets and a good many applicants did not get berths; the train crew was friendly and courteous, and handled patiently the loud and persistent complaints of some of the unlucky ones. The locomotives that we saw here and elsewhere in Germany were remarkably well groomed, and seemed in excellent condition. The permanent way appeared from the ridding of the train, and from a few casual inspections...
...acknowledge your courteous letter in which you ask me to express an opinion as the causes of what you evidently think is a rather general belief that a Harvard education tends to make a man a snob. The quickest and best way to answer your question is to say simply that I neither think it does nor do I think that there is any such general belief. I know nothing of the alleged "hostility" to Harvard either in the west or elsewhere to which the editorial from the CRIMSON, which you so kindly enclose, refers, and I am disinclined...
...about football. That many of us incline to this belief is thoroughly true. We bolster our supposition with the perspective of memory which asserts that pages about Shelley are indeed more likely to be well lettered and less subject to mortality than quartos about athletics. Mr. Allen flings the courteous gauntlet that may not remain unnoticed...
...board of editors of the Harvard Magazine appreciates the courteous editorial of this morning; and the clear delineation of the place of the "Magazine" in the world of college publications as conceived in it. We regret, however, that parts of the editorial have been subject to, what we trust is, misconception on the part of the student readers. Especially is this so in respect to the relations between the Harvard Advocate and the Harvard Magazine. Like Mr. Allen, Mr. Auslander, and the CRIMSON; the "Magazine" cherishes Mother Advocate, recognizes what a difficult position...