Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE is a world-wide prejudice, I might almost say superstition, that a gentleman should never soil his hands with work. There was perhaps a time in America, when even those dignified personages in white wigs, knee-breeches, and gilt frames, of whom we are all so proud, - even if they be only distant cousins on the mother's side, - played a part almost manual in laying the foundation of the great country in which we live; but those days are past. The state has successively passed through the ordeals of creation and salvation, in the true old orthodox...
...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...
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...
DURING the past College year the University lecturers have been represented by only one gentleman, Mr. Perkins. The number might be increased with much benefit to the students, and it seems to us that a course on law would be as instructive and useful as on any subject, a knowledge of which is requisite for general culture. At Dartmouth there is a course of lectures on law delivered to the academic students. They do not go into the subject deeply, but enough to read the frequent law terms which occur in articles, newspapers, and books with more intelligence...