Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...note-book with him on his travels, and took down observations on the appearance of the towns and country through which he passed, the customs of the people, and any peculiarities which struck him as worth preserving. These notes he afterwards embodied into letters addressed to an English gentleman, and published them in four large volumes...
...thought they must be "inhabited by men accustomed to rely on the University for subsistence; men whose wives are the chief support of their families by boarding, washing, mending, and other offices of the like nature. The husband, in the mean time, is a kind of gentleman at large; exercising an authoritative control over everything within the purlieus of the house; reading news-papers and political pamphlets; deciding on the characters and measures of an administration, and dictating the policy of his country. In almost all families of this class the mother and her daughters lead a life of meritorious...
...entrance to the seats around the Tree will be between Holden Chapel and Hollis Hall, and will be open at 5. After the exercises at the Tree, and during the remainder of the evening, a ticket will be required of every gentleman, or of gentlemen accompanied by ladies, entering the portion of the Yard enclosed by the rope. These tickets are not to be given up on entering the Yard, but merely to be shown to the officer...
From the close of the exercises at the Tree till 9, the President will receive the class and their friends at his house; no gentleman will be admitted without a ticket...
...person will be admitted to the church (before the class), or to the exercises at the Tree, without a reserved seat; and no gentleman to Memorial Hall, the President's Reception, or the Yard in the evening, without a ticket...