Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Union met last evening in Sever 11 to discuss the question of Woman Suffrage. The principal disputants were Messrs. Hayes, '84, and Richardson, '86, in the affirmative and Messrs. frost, '84, and Hansen, '85, in the negative. The following gentleman spool from the house: Mackintosh, Bowen, Carrier, Roundy, Fraser, in the affirmative and Barnes, Libby, Halbert, C. T. Davis, Lamont and Saunders in resulted as follows: On the merits of the question, affirmative 16, negative 37; on the might of the arguments of the principal disputants, affirmative 16, negative 52; on the whole debate, affirmative 10, negative 32. The question...
...important features of the English universities and schools, and I think you will not be unwilling to allow a little space for their correction. Let me premise however that it seems to me probable the News reporter may have misunderstood President Porter's remarks, as I should suppose a gentleman so eminent as a scholar and as the head of a great college would have taken pains to be more accurately informed. It is my purpose to ask him for a copy of his lecture, if published, as I hope may be the case...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON :-During the past week the question has been raised in your columns several times, editorially and in correspondence-who is the best man to send to New Haven next year to represent Harvard in the mile walk? The winner in last Saturday's race and a gentleman who did not walk this fall have both had their supporters, but not a word has been said for the plucky freshman who made nearly or quite as good time in that race as the victorious senior. Shattuck, so far as is known, never walked a race in his life...
...abolishment have endeavored to make the service as interesting as possible. This has been brought about in many ways, in none more so than by the improvement in the music. The latest change is the introduction of choir boys who are trained with much care and patience by the gentleman in charge of the singing. We desire as earnestly as the Advocate that prayers should be made voluntary and any improvement in the service may to some degree lessen the probability of this desired end. It is, however, generally admitted both by opponents and by the supporters of compulsory attendance...
...great public schools or under private tutors. Then the boating, the foot-ball, the cricket, the tennis, the hunting, the intercourse with "fellows," "scholars," lecturers, and professors, the acquaintances of the young aristocracy, and the nameless air of academic refinement are the necessary and finishing requisites of an English gentleman. To be that is the ambition and aim of every well-born and well-bred English youth...