Word: decorums
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...Chemistry I, for it is only by this name that we can designate the whistling which fills the air of the laboratory in the presence of the instructor. The hours of laboratory work ought to be regarded much in the same light as lectures or recitations, and the same decorum ought to be preserved which everybody seems bound to observe in the lecture room. Besides the lack of courtesy toward the instructor, this habit of whistling seriously hinders men doing their work in a careful manner. We hope that we shall not hear any more complaints on this head...
...euchre. The appearance of the contestants was awaited with great eagerness. At last they came, and were greeted by generous applause. But not a college cheer was heard; for such an undignified manifestation of approval in these days of gentle manners was considered an unpardonable breach of etiquette and decorum. But the players - a student of 1885 would not have recognized the brawny athletes of his day in these aesthetic youths. Each player wore a dress coat of spotless black, a shirt whose bosom glistened with the starch of Brines' Troy Laundry, knickerbockers of the most approved Oscar Wilde pattern...
Although the conduct of Harvard men in recitation rooms is proverbial for decorum, yet we regret to say that there are some little matters which ought to be of more concern to the students. Notably among the disturbances is the habit which some freshmen have of reading the morning papers in the lectures in English. A practice of this kind, insuiting as it is to the instructor, cannot be too strongly condemned. The applauding which is so frequently indulged in the Chemistry lectures has been spoken of before by the CRIMSON; but another reminder on the morning of the lecture...
...rendered more impressive and less irksome. At the close of the service Wednesday, Dr. Hale took occasion to comment upon some features of the exercises and to suggest improvements in some minor details, especially urging upon the students as a matter of mutual courtesy, punctuality in attendance and greater decorum in abstaining from hastening away directly after the benediction. The chapel services at Harvard, he remarked, in point of decorum and impressiveness were not surpassed by any other similar service in the world so far as he was aware; not even in any of the university chapels or cathedrals...
...Advertiser says very sensibly in regard to the Bowdoin hazing case: "Exactly why the relations of students to their faculties and to each other should not be placed on the ordinary basis of social decorum, enforced, when necessary, by the appropriate legal sanctions, it is difficult to see. Many old fashions are quaint and charming; this one certainly is not. The tone of the age is against this 'peculiar institution.' Overgrown classes, eager individual work in special lines, the advanced age compelled by high standards of qualification, largely relieve the individual student from his duty as guardian of class dignity...