Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...affect all members of the association, and of probable conflict of hours, which would inconvenience the waiters themselves, need hardly be considered. Beyond all drawbacks of the kind which might be tolerated, would still be the properly strong repugnance on the part of students to being served after the fashion of Memorial by men whom they must regard and meet as equals outside of the Hall. The relations which exist between a student and a colored waiter are not to be tolerated between two students; and it is impossible entirely to disassociate the duties of the Memorial waiter from...
...fashion of the community in which a man lives is the greatest factor in deciding his habits. In Europe, and especially in Germany, every one drinks beer as a matter of course throughout the day, and even in England it is a difficult matter for a water drinker to travel without being practically forced to drink wines of various sorts. But these customs are now giving way to modern ideas, which, fortunately for us, have been characteristic of American life since its beginning...
...great movement toward such philanthropic work. This work has excited both praise and derision. It has been extolled because it proposed to do good deeds to unfortunate men and women; it has been decried because oftentimes the purpose was fulfilled only in a sentimental, an uneconomic, or a bungling fashion. Yet, after all, this sort of work is forcing itself up and up in public opinion. Derision is giving way to examination, criticism yields to close cooperation...
...Captain Wiggin we have nothing but words of praise. He has not only improved his batting, and adopted himself to a new position, but he has developed the material and handled the team in a thoroughly creaditable fashion...
...have the authority of a member of the Corporation for stating that it was the intention of the Corporation, in prohibiting the use of University buildings for political party purposes, simply to prevent clubs of students from holding political meetings in the same fashion as other voters and holding them in University buildings. That is to say, the Corporation expresses itself as willing that students should form political clubs and as willing that they should take part in political meetings of the usual character if held elsewhere, but as unwilling that they should hold meetings of this character in halls...