Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON:-I wish to ask if it is not customary and perfectly proper for a young gentleman to attend any of the afternoon athletic exhibitions at Harvard in company with two young ladies without a chaperone. I have asked this question of several of the most prominent social men in Harvard. I have been unable to find one who has not said that it is all nonsense in any one's wishing to make out that it is necessary to have a chaperone under such circumstances...
Though members are advised to make use of the present opportunity to exchange old books for new ones, the society assumes no responsibility as to the prices paid, or the kind of new books to be furnished. All such responsibility rests with the gentleman who is making the exchange. It is hoped that hereafter better arrangements may be made, by which the society, through the Inter-collegiate Book Exchange, will be able to furnish its members with many more secondhand text books than it has heretofore, and to find a better sale for such as are to be sold...
Though members are advised to make use of the present opportunity to exchange old books for new ones, the society assumes no responsibility as to the prices paid, or the kind of new books to be furnished. All such responsibility rests with the gentleman who is making the exchange. It is hoped that hereafter better arrangements may be made, by which the society, through the Inter-collegiate Book Exchange, will be able to furnish its members with many more secondhand text books than it has heretofore, and to find a better sale for such as are to be sold...
...interesting and instructive, we hope the rest of the lectures will be given if possible. The time of the year is not as favorable for the success of a voluntary course of lectures as it would have been earlier in the season, but nevertheless, we think that if the gentleman decides to give another talk on the subject of English reading, a sufficient number of men will attend to recompense him for his trouble...
...will of the late Thomas G. Appleton, '31, a classmate of Wendell Phillips, and a prominent literary gentleman of Boston, has been made public. Among the bequests are several to Harvard. A portrait of Samuel Appleton, and the testator's piece of statuary, "The Lion's Head," are left to the president and fellows of Harvard college ; and $5,000 for the astronomical observatory at Harvard college. In a remote contingency the sum of $100,000 will be divided among several institutions, one of which is Harvard. The whole estate is valued at several hundred thousand dollars, and Harvard...