Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...follows: In Cambridge, at Brattle Hall--Thursday evening, March 30, and Friday evening, April 7; In Boston, at Potter Hall--Friday evening, March 31. Tickets at $1.50 and $1 may be had at Herrick's and Thurston's or upon application to J. DeQ. Briggs, Wadsworth 5. Morose, a gentleman that loves no noise H. S. Deming '05 Sir Dauphine Eugenie, a knight, his nephew F. A. Spencer '06 Ned Clerimont, a gentleman, his friend W. L. Gifford '07 Truewit, another friend, C. Kempner '06 Sir John Daw, a knight, H. P. Johnson '05 Sir Amorous La Foole, a knight...
...Monday's communication from Mr. Fall, modern football was criticized, among other things for the "danger of being tempted to forget that you are a gentleman...
...shudder. But it is football, and the kind where the player punishes the ball and not the man. And a man can play it successfully without any strain upon his sense of fair-play or honesty and without any danger of being tempted to forget he is a gentleman. The ball is always in sight and so is the player. It is a spectacular game. It is one where good individual play counts, and not one where the whole team is, like a chain, no stronger than its weakest link. There is, to be sure, little chance for grand, strategy...
...Tintagel" from the "Southern Coast" series, lent by Mr. Francis Bullard '86. The latter has been on temporary exhibition twice before. The others on view are: a very early drawing of bridge and cottage in much the mannered style of Turner's masters; an early drawing of a country gentleman's house and ground; "Ehrenbreitstein," probably one of his first continental series; "Devonport," one of the most consummate of the "England and Wales" series; "The Simplon," one of the late Alpine studies; and a rapid study of waves breaking on a beach. The "Tintagel," "Devonport" and "Simplon" form...
...followed by President Eliot, the last speaker. President Eliot characterized the best Harvard man as the gentleman who is also a democrat. Two requisites for a gentleman, he said, are quiet tastes, and a disposition to see the superiorities in people and to desire association with one's superiors. Then, too, a gentleman should be generous, a thing not incompatible with being poor in money. Life should conform to one's resources. A real gentleman will always be considerate of those whom he employs, and above all he will never do anything injurious to a creature weaker than himself...