Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nassau Lit. contains some eloquent resolutions upon the death of the late Judge Elbert Herring, in which the deceased gentleman, who was more than ninety years of age, is eulogized for having "held many positions of trust, and reflected honor on the Cliorophic Society," - a local society of which he was a member while connected with the Princeton class...
...gentleman of reputation shall be chosen as Umpire. The fact that he is a graduate of either College shall not debar him from serving in that capacity. Each College shall make a nomination for that position, and if the nomination be accepted by the other College, the final choice shall then be decided...
...liberal tone of these speeches led a Southern gentleman, a member of the class of '33, to write to the Nation, pointing out that it would be but consistent with this principle to put up tablets in Memorial Hall to Harvard graduates who had fallen on the Confederate side also. The Nation replied, though indorsing the ground taken by Judge Devens and General Bartlett, "To put up tablets .... to persons whom its builders do not reverence or love - i.e. the Southern dead - would be a kind of absurdity difficult to describe, if it were not an act of hypocrisy...
...WILL the gentleman who received the sealskin cap from the window of 25 Hollis during the fire please return to 40 Gray...
Such being the case, we hope that the centennial year is to inaugurate the era of good feeling between Harvard and Yale. The duello is a custom instituted by gentlemen, and presupposes a code of honor. Duels are ever polite, for the consent of a gentleman to measure swords is in itself a compliment to his adversary, and implies a certain parity of position and sympathy of sentiment. We hope, then, that the future contests between Yale and Harvard will not be marred by the expression of any feeling less creditable than honorable emulation. The students of Yale must certainly...