Word: gentlemanly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...beginning of each round. This made it necessary for the referee, Mr. O'Reilly to do this himself, something which we have never seen done at a winter meeting before, and hope never to see again. The idea of the stewards standing idly about, and allowing the oldest gentleman acting as an officer to do their work, was not an act of very great courtesy. Another feature, not of importance, perhaps, but, nevertheless, well omitted was the presence of trainers, and of contestants being revised in the main hall. These men and their work are much more properly confined...
...gentleman living in Holyoke, while practicing on telegraph insulators from his window with a revolver yesterday, received a call from a member of the Cambridge police force; after a little persuasion, the member of the "finest" returned to his beat, and the frightened marksman deposited his revolver in its drawer...
...finished, the resolution asking for executive power was again brought up, and the debate on it was long and animated. It finally became evident that the meeting considered such a request as inexpedient at present, and that it might " seriously handicap all conferences in the future," as one gentleman forcibly expressed it. The motion was accordingly lost...
Following the reports from the colleges, Mr. Wm. E. Dodge was introduced. Mr. Dodge is a gentleman who has been closely and successfully connected with the Y. M. C. A. interests for many years. Below is given in brief the substance of his remarks...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- In justice to myself, I wish to state that the article in Wednesday's Herald headed " Study of Greek Optional," was written at the advice of a prominent member of the faculty in the Greek department. The gentleman informed me that an informal vote on the question stood 30 to 2, and that the final vote was postponed as a matter of form to the next meeting, and urged me to say that the faculty had already decided the matter. I never have, and never shall, " print news on insufficient information in a great city daily...