Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...member. In this connection it would be well to suggest that in forming a club of this kind, members should bear in mind that here, as in other cases, concessions must be made by all, and that members ought to come expecting to yield certain points of rules and decorum, which in another place might be insisted on. However, personal objections should have small weight in these discussions, as it is probable that, through the courtesy of the Telegraph Company, games could be played by two opposite factions without their speaking to or even seeing each other...
...college-hall in the world." When this prediction was made, very few were ready to believe that even the grandest college-hall could raise the moral tone of the average undergraduate, but our enthusiastic President's expectation seems actually to have been realized. Thus far the greatest order and decorum have prevailed amongst the students (though the hall does not seem to have had so beneficial an effect upon the negroes), and the quizzical face of Nicholas Boylston and the stern countenance of John Adams have not yet been improved by the addition of a pat of butter. Indeed...
...made with the clubs were strictly carried out by Mr. Mitchell. In fact, Saratoga has in every way vindicated its character for straightforward dealing. The promises of the S. R. A. in regard to pool-selling, accommodations, etc., were observed with the most punctilious exactness. The greatest order and decorum prevailed, and the much-dreaded John Morrissey was rather a blessing than otherwise, by concentrating whatever wickedness there was in town behind the green curtains of his club-house. Never before has Saratoga been filled with so large or so respectable an assemblage as that which thronged to witness...