Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...before advocating their plan, so ardently before their college." The writer names an objection which he seems to think explodes the whole scheme; namely, that three feet of water will be needed "to cover amply all the undulations and irregularities on the surface of such a large field." The gentleman might as well have made the number of feet ten or twenty instead of three; for they would have sounded more formidable, and would have stated the case just as truly...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The gentleman signing himself "W." in your issue of Monday seems to have forgotten, first, the fact already pointed out in your Saturday's issue that instructors and students meet on terms of intimacy at the Art Club, the Classical Club, the Conference Francaise, the Finance Club, the Historical Society, the Deutscher Verein and the Natural History Society; second, that nobody ever has or ever will do any voluntary act without a sufficient motive. "If that be treason, make the most...
...philanthropic gentleman, desirous to further among his younger fellow-countrymen familiarity with Washington's "New-Year Aspiration," has proposed and partially provided for certain Competitive Prize Recitals thereof, to take place in the last week of this year, in each town or city containing prominent literary institutions...
Lost. Will the gentleman who took a black alpaca umbrella, by mistake, from the gymnasium, please leave the same at the Auditor's room and oblige the owner...
...interesting, also, to hear the Yale definition of a gentleman from which "cultured manners" is excluded. A man can be just as manly with refinement as without and there is no reason why he should not make himself acceptable to his companions rather than otherwise. President Dwight draws a line between a true gentleman and a gentleman of leisure." In other words a gentleman must do his share of the world's work. This is essentially a modern idea; it is a northern idea and a republican idea; and it deserves support everywhere...