Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last number of the Monthly has an interesting editorial on the conference committee. The writer takes a stand directly opposed to that of a gentleman from whom we recently published a communication. The man in question condemned the committee because of its inaction. The Monthly, on the other hand, holds that the body is a conference committee, and not an executive committee. This distinction is one which must be often reiterated; for we are very likely to forget...
...speaking of the Yale-Princeton game, it says: "The annual encounter of the elevens of these two colleges seems to be looked to as affording "the pace" at which college foot-ball shall be carried on. Their last match at New Haven was universally commended as an uninterrupted and gentleman-like pursuit of the game proper, unattended by private fisticuffs or wrestling bouts of a brilliant but extra and unnecessary kind, and it was perhaps very greatly in consequence of the quality of this match that the recommendation of the Harvard committee was made, and the Faculty's prohibition withdrawn...
...other gymnasium exercise, merely a recreation for the mind, but I cannot understand why it should not on that account be well cultivated. The art of self-defence, while it gives a person a happy confidence as an athlete, does not destroy the instincts of the gentleman, but engenders on the contrary equanimity of temper. Your paper fears also that the enjoyment of a special teacher in sparring would, if the conduct of the faculty were at all consistent, necessitate a special master of fencing and dancing. Here you commit a mistake; sparring is a mode of defence which...
...gentleman who took by mistake the wrong umbrella from Sever 6, last Monday, will oblige the owner by returning it to that room as soon as possible...
...gentleman who by mistake took a black silk umbrella with a silver handle from the Auditor's room in Memorial yesterday at lunch will please return the same to the Auditor and get his own in exchange...