Word: courteousness
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...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...
...several other colleges visiting Cambridge with their teams, while every Harvard graduate not a member is debarred. At such times the admission of alumni might be permitted without any appreciable loss in membership, -- it might even result in a gain. Such a change would seem to be both courteous to the graduates and in keeping with the broad principles on which the Union is founded...
Professor Lyon testifies to the courteous consideration of their Excellencies Hamdi Bey and Khalil Bey of the Imperial Museum, from which a commissioner was sent, according to law, to take possession for the Museum of such objects as might be found...
...Firm, courteous, patient, wise, he has made the strenuous service of the College a satisfaction never to be forgotten by his associates in this Board...