Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College, but rather should be the centre and end of College life. There are four courses open to the new students: one devoted entirely to study and no outside activities; one devoted to outside activities with no attention to study; one in which a man strives only for the gentleman's mark of C; and the fourth in which one strives for first group in scholarship and for a College "H". The first and second can easily be seen to be poor courses to follow; the third is like being satisfied with the third team when the first or second...
...Holman could get little information about Rev. John Harvard who preached there sixty years before, but he finally learned of two sons, Rev. John C. Harvard of Sheffield, who had died in 1907, and J. Mawson Harvard of London. Mr. Holman was soon in correspondence with the latter gentleman, and a little later visited him. From him Mr. Holman obtained much valuable genealogical date which was embodied upon his return in an article upon "Living Harvards and Their Family Records," which appeared in the Harvard Graduates' Magazine of June, 1910. At the home of J. Mawson Harvard he found...
...years old. Mr. Babcock, although active up to a few weeks ago, had suffered from a fall which he had about a year ago and death was due to the weakening effect of the injuries received at that time. At his birthday reception, June 1, the old gentleman was apparently in fine health, but since that day his decline had been rapid...
...some kindly old gentleman were to suggest that the members of the Freshman football team be awarded the University "H," he would be ignored. If he were to suggest, furthermore, that men be given the "H" who had just failed to make the University football team because they had preferred to vote part of their time to the chess team, he would be laughed...
...proctor is an invitation to circumvent him, I doubt whether the honor system would result in any greater maturity of moral conceptions. To sign a statement at the end of an examination paper to the effect that he has not cheated should be infinitely more humiliating to a gentleman than to sit within view of a proctor, yet in some colleges, at least, the honor system encourages the view that such a signature is more binding than writing the name at the head of the paper. To stop cheating by making it unconventional, a sort of infraction of good fellowship...