Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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YALE CREW QUARTERS, GALES FERRY, CT., June 18, 1907.--The work of all the crews was very light today, owing to the oppressive heat. In the latter part of the afternoon a gentleman's four, made up from the Yale graduates, raced one composed of Harvard graduates, and won by a length in a quarter-mile race. The university crew went downstream two miles and back, accompanied by Coach Kennedy...
...pair oar with Assistant Coach Gill this morning. W. Blair, coach of the Yale freshmen, was the guest of Captain Bacon at luncheon today. J. F. Perkins '99, of the graduate advisory rowing committee, arrived today. He will be here until after the races and will organize the Harvard gentleman's eight, which will race the crew of Yale graduates for the Graves Cup on June...
...will find a purchaser. On the other hand, Dona Paz, the traditional mother-in-law, scoffs at it, and praises, instead, the daubing of Pepito, whom she has secret hopes of marrying. Her disdain is more than offset by the enthusiasm of Pepe's father, a comical, loving old gentleman with an unmanageable tongue. Pepe returns with the picture unsold. Soon after this shock, a millionaire plantation owner, Don Manuel, comes from Havana to help Pepito, his nephew, whom he has never seen. He mistakes Pepe for Pepito, buys his picture, and invites the artist to move over...
...York, has presented to the College Library the diploma given to Washington Irving as a doctor of laws, at the Commencement of 1832. It bears the signature of Josiah Quincy as President, and, as usual, contains a brief characterization which may be freely translated as follows: "Scholar and true gentleman; skilful portrayer of lands and customs, delighting his readers with the delicacy of his wit or stirring them with the splendor of his diction; who by his many and admirably finished works has won fame for himself and for his country." The diploma is framed, and hangs for the present...
...Portland church; from here he went to the First Congregational Church of Jamaica Plain, which charge he still holds. In June he received from Bowdoin the honorary degree of D.D. His appointment as Ingersoll Lecturer was announced on June 3, 1906. Among his works are, "The Religion of a Gentleman," "The American Citizen," "Luxury and Sacrifice," "The Problem of Duty," and "The Spirit of Democracy...