Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hopkinson Smith will speak on "The Making of a Gentleman" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to members of the Union only...
...Hopkinson Smith will speak on "The Making of a Gentleman" in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to members of the Union only...
...description of the Bodleian is marred by inaccuracy and exaggeration, and still more by a tone which one hopes is not characteristic of what the writer ambiguously calls "the American equivalent of a scholar and a gentleman." The account of the Oxford Union, on the other hand, is full of valuable suggestion, for imitation. There is no more promising remedy for our much bemoaned slackness of intellectual interest and ambition in the College than the development of amateur debating. But this, too, we kill with professionalism, and what should be an exhilarating exercise becomes a drudgery and a burden...
...somewhat slatternly camp-follower. The editorial space is devoted to s consideration of the attractiveness of the militia and an appeal to the undergraduate to enlist. The example of England is adduced: "England has shown her appreciation of trained reserves. Ever good citizen, artisan, sea-captain, farmer, and gentleman, in the narrower English sense, offers his services; but never in England can it (sic) rise to the proportion and importance of our own national guard." Every good Harvard man surely belongs in one or another of the above categories...
...measure of the scholastic apathy that intervenes; a quietness barely broken by hour examinations, tests, and theses. Interests athletic and social pursued to the exclusion of the purely intellectual are responsible for the unpopularity of examinations, and for the sentiment, often felt if not expressed, that "C is a gentleman's grade...