Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writer also accords with the ethical spirit of the article of his opponent. The first difference of opinion is seen in the motives cited by the different writers, for the higher tone present among Harvard students, as claimed by Prof. Palmer. Prof. Ladd finds this same spirit of the gentleman at Yale, and asserts that it is general in all of our colleges, that it cannot be attributed to any new system of education, but is a mark of the advance of American civilization...
After the concert a triumphant procession was formed, and to the stirring notes of "Yale Men Say," the line of march was taken up to the house of the Mayor. Here the serenade was interrupted by the appearance of that gentleman himself, who hospitably threw open his doors and invited all to come in. After a short entertainment of the societies in his house, the Mayor was bid "good-night," and with twenty-seven cheers the party returned to the hotel. For an account of the manner of this return, the meeting, disarming, restoration and pacification of the belligerant policeman...
...Burgess, designer of the Puritan, has just designed a sloop forty feet long, for a New York gentleman...
...authority over the second fohos, Ben Johnson, and a host of other commentators? So Mr. Adams would have us spell 'Shakespeare' in any way we choose? It is a question if Mr. Adams would care to have his name spelled in more than one way. There is a gentleman in Philadelphia who has amused himself by making out two thousand ways of spelling Shakespeare's name. Would it not be advisable for the "Shakespeare" Club to buy this little book select the most curious spelling and adopt it as their way of spelling the name, for have they...
Having taken into partnership a gentleman from the East, I will pay the highest cash prices for cast off clothing. Please send orders to No. 4 Brattle Street, and they will be promptly attended to. Hours, 1 to 3 and 6 to 7 p.m. A. Archambeau...