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Word: gentlemanly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proud of the fact that the late Curtis Guild '81 was one of its editors when he was in College, and it wishes to join with the many other organizations with which he was connected in paying a last tribute to him as a scholar, a citizen and a gentleman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURTIS GUILD. | 4/7/1915 | See Source »

...undergraduate's attitude towards scholarship has changed. No longer is "C" referred to as "a gentleman's mark." The day when an undergraduate may settle himself smugly into the chair of complacent mediocrity and let the world wag, is past. Men in-college have come more and more to realize that after all their real object in coming to college should be to do well in their work, a fact sometimes lost sight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONOR MEN. | 11/25/1914 | See Source »

...have one or two personal friends in the insurance business, each of whom I can vouch for as being a perfect gentleman and a clear-headed business man. One in particular is incidentally a young Harvard graduate with a cum laude on his sheepskin, who to my knowledge is not given to making "cringing advances" nor to talking to hear himself talk. Therefore, although in no way implicated myself, I feel called upon to object mildly to the polemic against insurance men as a class, which recently appeared in the CRIMSON. This ill-considered letter leads one to suspect that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Case for the Insurance Man. | 4/10/1914 | See Source »

...story of the play centres in Bury St. Edmonds, a small town near London. A young gentleman from the metropolis mingles with the provincial society of the little town. There are two ladies, mother and daughter, whose ideas of social breeding are synonymous with their name, Fantast, and who are extremely eager to take up the latest arrival in fashion from Paris. Two old gentlemen of the town are continually playing practical jokes which would now be regarded as social errors rather than as marks of a cultivated intellect. The Londoner, a French barber, launches into the society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STORY OF D. U. PLAY, "BURY FAIR" | 3/4/1914 | See Source »

...system turns the Freshman in time into a bully, and Princeton does not need the system because there is never any need for a system that is base, cowardly, and immoral." When asked for a substitute he says: "The substitute for being a bully is being a gentleman. The only way to make a system and tradition of manliness is by practicing it individually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON OPPOSES HORSING | 1/27/1914 | See Source »

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