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...last number of the Advocate, "there is nothing," as we might have said in the eighteenth century, "that could be construed by the nicest reader into a trespass upon the rules of decorum." There is nothing--story, verses, or editorial article--that would not deserve, at least a satisfactory grade if offered in an English course in Harvard University. In these respects the number is superior to many of the magazines with brilliant covers that you may buy for fifteen cents in the stations of the Cambridge Subway. To the present reviewer, also, this Advocate is quite as interesting...
With the increased popularity of Memorial Hall this year, as shown by the unusually large and constant number of patrons, there has been a marked falling off in the decorum of its members. Particularly at the dinner hour has this been the case. Men take liberties that would not be countenanced in any other sort of a public dining hall. At the slightest provocation some jovial spirit clinks his glass, the majority, nothing loth, follows suit and a bedlam is the result. With this increase of noise there has been far too much thoughtless, although withal goodnatured, throwing of food...
...whom a poem might occur, as did the 'Arrow and the Song,' while he stood before the fire waiting for his children to go to church with him; and he was equally able to spend patient years in hearing and weighing 'slowly and with decorum,' as he says, the criticism of other and younger Italian scholars on his version of Dante. He was abstemious, yet wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite...
Religion, President Eliot said, means many things in this world: to some it is a magnificent ceremonial; to others, a certain sacred administration by a privileged or exalted class; and to still others, beauty, decorum, pomp. He defined the religion needed in the college community of today as "that actual code of ethics which your community, race, nation or generation has evolved; that code infused and vivified by some sort of love of sentiment...
Judging from the rude and puerile conduct of certain members of Fine Arts 4, it would seem that such a course in manners should be prescribed, for evidently a sense of decorum can not be inspired in these individuals by the mere association with gentlemen...