Word: decorums
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...would be a most kind and enjoyable thing if some or all of our instructors would make it a point to teach a few of the students the observances of proper decorum in recitations. Those friends who begin to pack up their books and "grab" for their hats some three or four minutes before the close of the hour might learn a little forbearance if the instructor should do likewise and make a rush for the door even before he had completed the last sentence of his lecture. However this expedient might prove futile...
...cannot think the students of those days so bad as they are reported, for one must consider the sentiments of the time in which these reports were written. The Puritan fathers who held the reins of the college could not bear any departure from their ideas of gravity and decorum. All the students in those days had to board in "commons," unless excused by the president. The "commons" at first were very bad and furnished the students plenty of ground for complaint. A regular steward, butler and cook were appointed by the college and a committee was chosen...
...trial. But when it did come on, all felt that they had not waited in vain. John's pathetic account of his wrongs and injuries was worthy of the closest attention, and when he turned to the judge and calmly addressed him as "my friend," only the strict decorum due the court prevented a wild outburst of enthusiasm. There was a strong array of legal talent on John's behalf, all the product of the Law School. Mr. Merriam conducted the case, assisted by Messrs. Hobbs and Hayes of the Law School, and Mr. Francis of the Boston...
...Holmes. The traditions of American life sink deep, and the pattern is everywhere the same. Two orators and two poets, chosen by vote of the undergraduates themselves, in turn commemorated the glories of Harvard, criticized its system, and exhorted to emulation of its past. The most perfect decorum prevailed; in fact any one who had witnessed the pandemonium of the Oxford Encaenia could not fail to marvel that these things could be. The Harvard undergraduates no doubt felt the responsibility of the occasion. They were taking their part in a great celebration, and were doing their duty to themselves...
...representatives wore long red togas and black mortar-boards - the "toga virilis" of 1825. The men marched in order and decorum, and presented a fine appearance. The marshals led the procession on horseback, then followed the large body of the senior class, and then, on a dray, a special feature, very well gotten up, representing "Johnnie Harvard's Pa's." The basis for this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre...