Word: courteousness
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...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...
...same time this natural disposition of men may not be urged as a plea against their being civil and courteous to men not directly in their set. Regarded from this point of view the points made in this morning's communication have great weight...
...Harvard's glory is apparent in her poverty. The pressure upon her resources is simply tremendous. Men less kind and courteous would be ceaselessly wrangling and bitterly jealous, if called to struggle a these do for their share of the college income; while each department, each scientific school, the gymnasium, the library, get but part of what they need, and each is just able to pull through the year and not run in debt. This only means that the life of the school is grandly vigorous. Its various departments beset the sorely tried president and treasurer with the appetites...