Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Turf, Field and Farm says: "Dr. D. A Sargent frequently interests and instructs those who hasten to or read his discourses on athletics, but the learned gentleman overstepped the mark when in a recent lecture on. The evils of the professional tendency of modern athletics," he asserted that rowing, boating, cricket and pedestrianism had their best day, and that base ball would die out before long...
...three serials. "A Marsh Island," "Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains," and the "Country Gentleman" all increase in interest. Among the articles of a more solid nature are an account of the revival of interest in antique sculpture after the neglect of the Dark Ages, by William Shields Liscomb, under the title of "The Quest for the Grail of Ancient Art;" a second paper of Madame Mohl's Salon; and an article on "Vernon Lee," by Harriet W. Preston. Dr. Holmes's charming papers are continued. Bradford Torrey contributes a pleasant paper on "Winter Birds about Boston." "A Sheaf...
...gentleman prompted by curiosity, recently made investigations on the subject of the decrease in the number of Freshmen rooming in the yard, with the following interesting results...
...Harper's Magazine, there was one person appertaining to it of whom I often thought with awe and reverent curiosity. The fame of him preceded by several months my actual introduction to him, so that my imagination had time to picture him in all manner of portentous guises. The gentleman to whom I refer was an undergraduate, and at that period a sophomore. He was commonly spoken of as "Bill Blaikie," and his claim to my reverence lay in the fact that he was the typical strong man of the college. I doubt whether I should have had the perseverance...
...taken by the students in this great economic question of the day, the tariff. We now look forward to the lectures which are to be given on Free Trade by an apostle of that school, only hoping that the lecturer may be as able, and as interesting as the gentleman who has so eloquently presented the other side of the question...