Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PATRONIZING OLD GENTLEMAN (to a doting mamma). So I suppose this little fellow is going to Harvard one of these days...
...says Yale found in 1875 that it was folly for her to row with Cornell, and expect to win honors, and so backed out of the R. A. A. C. and now, in refusing to row Cornell in eight-oars, she shows the same lack of courage. If this gentleman really believes what he has written, he must have an unlimited faculty for swallowing utter nonsense and twaddle of the rankest description. It is all very well for Cornell and Columbia to accuse Yale and Harvard of cowardice, and if it affords them innocent amusement, it assuredly has no effect...
...well-known Mr. Fair, of Nevada, honored the college by a visit last week, and the hospitality of several societies was gladly extended to him. The monotony of life here is so rarely broken by the visits of really distinguished men, that when such a prominent gentleman as Mr. Fair comes among us the event is regarded with great interest and remembered with satisfaction...
...connection with boating matters, it is only just to state that the criticism, in our last issue, of a certain gentleman's language was based on a comparatively wide-spread misunderstanding of the import of his words. He has pointed out to us the misconstruction placed upon his remarks and the mistake is willingly corrected...
...coming to? Was it not the Index which only last year was so virtuously indignant at the attention paid to athletics at Harvard and Yale? And now they have gone and had a meeting of their own, and found it not so bad after all. One Reverend gentleman acted as Referee and others presented prizes, one of which was in the substantial form of a barrel of apples. The subjects of some of the articles in the present number of the Index are of a very general character, such as "Poetry," "Truth," "Wit and Humor." These subjects are taken...