Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student at the University of Texas, being short of funds, wrote to his father: "Send me $100. He who gives quickly gives double." The old gentleman replied, enclosing $50, with the remark that, as he had responded promptly, the $50 enclosed were equivalent to the desired...
...again, and the college is heartily to be congratulated. I tis to beregreted that the college did not respond more liberally. But Professor Ames kindly continues to guarantee solvency in June, with a surplus. The thanks of the members, and indeed of the whole college, are due to this gentleman for the interest he has shown in the welfare of the society, and for the work he has voluntarily done already, and under the new arrangement of a reduced force of clerks, must continue to do. It is to him more than to anyone else that we owe the continuance...
...instructor dares to say his English is faulty. Poor fellow, we sympathize with you. We, too, have had pet themes sat upon, but we didn't have sense enough to make public our feelings on such occasions. Seriously, if the subject was so painful a one, why did the gentleman attempt a theme on it. Could his pent-up grief find no better outlet than in a 250 word theme in an examination book? And he not only writes a theme on the subject, but afterwards, in a fit of petty spite, bawls out his grief in a newspaper...
...much more irritating is it to hear an instructor ridicule an unfortunate attempt to tell about the death of a brother. Even if an instructor has no delicacy in mortifying a student in the presence of his classmates, still it would be supposed that the instincts of a gentleman would cause him to hesitate in publicly ridiculing an expression which was intended to narrate a most painful experience. It would at least be kinder to point out mistakes to the writer of the theme, than to read the faults before a class...
LOST-From Memorial, at lunch, yesterday, a new hat, with owner's card inside. The gentleman who took the same may obtain his own hat in exchange by applying to the Auditor...