Word: decent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more respect than we have for those who support themselves through college in a legitimate way. The member of '79 who supported himself for two years by selling books was thoroughly respected by all who knew him, and any slur cast upon him would have been resented by every decent man. For Mr. Moses King, however, we have no respect, and we feel sure that public opinion is with us. In the name of the students of Harvard College we repudiate him and his Register...
...rooms can be heated, and that they are poorly adapted for this use even if they could be, this proposition seems about as cool as the emperature is likely to be. When an instructor has over one hundred and thirty pupils, it is but fair to ask that some decent provision be made for them, and we earnestly request the powers that be to have Sanders Theatre heated during the winter, and used as the instruction room in elocution. Even if the expense would be large, it would be worth incurring; but we have ascertained that it would be comparatively...
...decent fellow...
...pouring into us in regard to the short supply of food furnished. The supply of turkey or grapes or milk, or, in fact, of anything more or less palatable, has a strange proclivity for giving out just at the wrong time. The Crew men say that one cannot get decent meat when one happens to come in at a quarter past six, and that this has been often the case, our own personal experience can testify. To be sure, the Steward never refuses to give us something to eat; but, frankly speaking, pork and ham and pressed hash...
...were devilish amusing and impudent Now Robinson himself is a very good sort of a person, but his notions of amusing impudence do not agree with mine. He is an extremely nouveau riche, in fact, of the sort who cannot see the difference between vulgar impertinence and the decent amount of assurance that every gentleman ought to possess. And ever since I met him I have been tormented with the idea that you might possibly be sacrificing your old notions of manners, which I am bound to say were very good, to the theories of good-fellowship which happen...