Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...estimated that there are two hundred and fifty Yale graduates in Boston and vicinity of whom over two-thirds were at the Yale alumni dinner given to President Dwight last Wednesday evening...
...annual meeting and dinner of the Yale alumni of Boston were held yesterday at the Parker House. Some 150 gentlemen were present, and Rev. Walcott Calkins, class of 1856, presided. Among the gentlemen present were President Dwight, Prof. Fisher, Gov. Ames, Lieut. - Gov. Brackett, Prof. Goodwin of Harvard, Rev. W. B. Wright, Rev. H. M. Dexter, Prof. E. Y. Hinks, Prof. Coy, Hon. W. W. Crapo, Dr. Increase N. Tarbox, Mr. Linus M. Child, Mr. Alfred Hemingway, Mr. E. P. Nettleton, Judge Baldwin, Prof. Jeshup, Prof. P. P. Otis, Mr. J. Haskell Butler and others...
...interesting, also, to hear the Yale definition of a gentleman from which "cultured manners" is excluded. A man can be just as manly with refinement as without and there is no reason why he should not make himself acceptable to his companions rather than otherwise. President Dwight draws a line between a true gentleman and a gentleman of leisure." In other words a gentleman must do his share of the world's work. This is essentially a modern idea; it is a northern idea and a republican idea; and it deserves support everywhere...
...annual alumni dinner of Yale will take place in Boston on Wednesday, February 2. Among those who have signified their purpose to be present are Gov. Ames, Lieut. Gov. Brackett, President Dwight, and Mr. Chauncey Depew...
...university is now supplemented by the report that for some time the university has been busying herself in the acquisition of new lands and buildings with the purpose of enlarging her academical domains. We are doubly pleased to hear thus early of the beneficient results of President Dwight's administration. But we sincerely hope that that beneficence will not end at the purchase of buildings and lands. Now that Yale is "really and truly" a university, hope is cherished on every side that her curriculum will prove the reality and truth of her claim to a broader field of work...