Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University. Be earnest, honest and fair-minded students. Manliness and the manly sense of duty is allied to this. It is the second element of the Yale student. The rules of the university life are justified largely on this ground; they are the expression of manly living. The gentleman of leisure, even of elegant leisure, is not so far as my observation extends, the manly...
...conclusion he said: The genuine Yale man is a gentleman, not necessarily the man of cultured manners and versed in the nicer requirements of social life, but the man who has the spirit of reverence for what is good of kindness towards others, of gentleness and self sacrifice and honor and truth The peculiarities of our social life lead to a certain boyishness of manner, but I do not for one moment doubt that the tendency of our life here is toward true gentlemanliness...
...27The gentleman who borrowed an '88 jersey and red stockings from 21 Holyoke House will kindly return them as soon as soon as convenient...
...Biard prize at Princeton of $100 is awarded to R. W. Mason. This gentleman, who has the misfortune to be a hunchback, and is not four feet in height, has succeded in capturing both First Junior Orator prize last commencement and now the First Biard prize for oratory, and he is, moreover, the first man in Princeton College who ever took both these prizes...
...seem a small matter to him, but to myself it is far different. Indeed my whole spread depends upon the use of that one room; without it I shall not have sufficient space to carry out my programme; with it everything will pass off well. However much right the gentleman may have to the use of his room it seems to me that it is an act of the grossest selfishness for him to enforce that right. This view of the case, I think, will be taken by the majority of undergraduates...