Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These resolutions were widely discussed, several gentleman calling particular attention to the opinion often expressed by the faculty that student's meetings seldom express real student feeling. This meeting, it was earnestly hoped, would not be of this character. The two petitions, the faculty held, only expressed the individual opinion of the signers; this meeting was called to give voice to the united sentiment of the college...
Three years ago Amherst College made a set of rules founded on the principle that each student was received as a gentleman and would be expelled whenever his conduct proved that he was not. Pres. Seelye says it is the unquestioned judgment of the faculty that there has been a great gain in regularity of attendance and standard of scholarship. No punishments are prescribed. The misbehaving student is not sent away nor even shut out of the recitation rooms, but no attention whatever is paid...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. -I should like to inquire about what may be called the constitutionality of an act of one of the instructors. The gentleman in question is a hard marker, and put on the examination paper questions purposely indefinite. Not satisfied with this, he felt called upon to warn not only those who did not pass the examination, but many who did. This fountain head of justice did not stop here. He sent official communications to the families of those students who had failed to attain a certain mark above 40 per cent. Is this not virtually raising...
...experienced undergraduate which is intuitively apprehended by a green and gray professor. It is exasperating to be told that you must not learn athletics of an athlete, and that the faculty is liable to recommend to you, as an instructor in that department, a most worthy Christian gentleman, a friend of one of the trustees, whose health has broken down under the cares of a country parish. Still, this result would, we think, be more surely averted if the undergraduates would put the faculty on honor by treating its members as intelligent and responsible beings, instead of arbitrarily enforcing...
...mathematical department, our classical department, modern language department and our scientific departments do not receive a salary of more than $4,000. These are facts that ought to be known, and they show a state of things that ought to be remedied. It is not right that gentleman engaged in one of the highest of human callings should be deprived of the ordinary social advantages which men of their culture and learning are justly entitled...