Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recognized as a possible source of danger in the encouragement it lends to work for rank only. The student of shallow principles and superficial attainments often forgets not only that knowledge is the first object of education, but that honesty is a necessary constituent in the character of a gentleman. Some things are best perceived through their influence upon the objects about them. We know that there is a fog on account of the obscurity which it casts about all objects sensible to the vision; so we may perceive the evil of competitive examinations by the manner in which they...
...have been asked to notice one or two cases of disorder which have recently occurred in Memorial Hall. A short time ago a gentleman took a seat in the gallery without taking off his hat. Although it was clearly an oversight, a number of students began at once to applaud, and the applause was continued until the hat was removed. Now, there cannot be the slightest doubt that it was not the gentleman in the gallery who was guilty of rudeness, but rather the students who thoughtlessly committed not only a breach of discipline but also a breach of good...
...Economy, who has been seriously ill for some time, is now recovering slowly, but will not be able to take charge of his classes for some time. Part of this work has been given to President Patton, part to Professor Sloane and part to Professor Austen Scott. The latter gentleman, from Rutgers college, will deliver a series of lectures before the senior class...
...Williamson has selected, as trustees of the new school, Messrs. John Wanamaker, Franklin B Gowan, Lemuel Coffin, William C. Ledwith, John Baird, Edward Longstrath, Henry C. Townsend, James W. Brooks and Alfred Helmbold, the last gentleman being the donor's private secretary. The trustees have organized and elected Mr. Baird as president, Mr. Brooks as treasurer and Mr. Helmbold as secretary...
...must know, are easily selected. They cannot be read for mere amusement; rather for delight, a delight that grows steadily with time and study. Beyond these very few, every man, according to his associations and individual taste, will fill out a different hundred. For instance,- Prof. Norton said,- a gentleman in England of the richest acquirements and the ripest and widest culture had recently sent to him his own "hundred best." Twenty, Prof. Norton had never heard of; he had never opened but twenty nor read largely except in seven of the hundred. This was a signify ant fact...