Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...likewise in the drawing of "The Pioneers," greeting the rising sun of the new administration; and the movement of the silhouetted figures is excellent. The frontispiece by Williams '11 has a certain grim humor. The tail-piece is charming. As a whole, the number is conscientious; but unlike the gentleman on the cover, we have not split our sides laughing...
Referring to your editorial on fencing in Saturday's issue, I think a few words may justly be said in defence of the maintenance of intercollegiate matches in what is essentially a gentleman's sport, and one which should hold a high place among athletics at Harvard...
...poems, one play, three stories, and an essay. The verse is of the average undergraduate standard. The play attempts too much in a short space to be effective. Of the stories, "The Man in Puce Waistcoat" relates a humorous incident, apparently in Eighteenth Century England, of how the choleric gentleman, in the costume described, lost five pounds by betting that another wayfarer at the inn could not cure the servant girl's earache. The pain, proved to be caused by an ant which was brought out by means of a ladle of water. The story is well told...
...should so befall Dr. Eliot to be appointed Ambassador, before whatever monarch he shall stand, there we shall know our great republic, in all its good qualities of truth and sincerity of nature, in all its pious ideals and aspirations, is represented by a man, an American gentleman, a scholar and a sage indeed...
...first president he met was John Tyler, a man of the utmost simplicity and frugality. His father brought him to the White House to meet President Pierce immediately after his inauguration. Mr. Buchanan was a quiet, democratic gentleman. During the Civil War, Mr. Wise knew Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. He carried the last message from General Lee to the president of the Confederacy and came to know him well. He was stubborn and egotistical, though intrepid and courageous in every way. Andrew Johnson was one of the guests at Mr. Wise's wedding. He met President Grant...