Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Watson, the designer of the Thistle, is building a centre-board sloop for an American gentleman...
...WILL the gentleman who took by mistake at an afternoon tea on Langdon street, Dec. 13, a hazelwood cane with silver turtles, kindly return the same to 32 Quincy street, Cambridge...
...escaped lunatic if he has learned that Exeter is disliked here, or some vicious-minded youth who is desirous of doing Harvard all possible harm by advancing his own views or prejudices against a preparatory school to which he for some reason is hostile. We would advise the young gentleman to sign his own name to his attacks hereafter in order that no one may be misled into believing that anyone here except "Pilliparius" holds such sublimely silly ideas...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- It strikes me that the gentleman who signs himself "Undergraduate" has a little exceeded his authority in writing such a communication as that which appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON. The writer, who is probably a freshman, should learn to respect the opinions of those who are older and better than himself. Harvard-or, for the matter of that, any college-can not afford to slight such opinions of her graduates, especially as the communication of "Graduate," who evidently has the athletic welfare of his alma mater at heart, was only a mild criticism and suggestion. Such criticisms...
...mentioning it, I really hope you won't mind, but your work is not quite up to Dickens or Thackeray or Macaulay. It's really of no consequence, though, and I do hope you won't be offended," etc., etc. It seems to me that the gentleman in question should learn to criticize fairly and squarely himself, before inditing such a malicious and maligning tirade against a conscientious and able instructor...