Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...must be, at one time, strict and kind and just. They learned that a real officer holds his speech until he has something to say, but on such occasions, speaks with remarkable clearness and force. And, lastly, they learned that a real officer must be at all times a gentleman. He furnished a concrete example for them to follow while their minds were yet in a plastic state in regard to life in the Army...
...gentleman's grade of C" he flatly thought beneath him; his idea of a gentleman's grade was hard and thoughtful work on whatever the gentleman undertook. That landed him in Phi Beta Kappa, by direct action. Or rather it landed him among people who chose college because it was a place to do something, and then did it as well as they knew how. That principle he carried throughout his life. He never skimped or spared himself. He put Theodore Roosevelt, all there was of him, right into whatever he undertook...
Some time ago, a gentleman wrote a letter which eulogized as martyrs certain Columbia professors who, if I remember rightly, were supposed to be of the same breed as Scott Nearing. The writer's defence was that anyone is entitled to free speech. I wrote an answer at time; it never appeared in the CRIMSON...
...foster and promote the sentiment of reverence and the sentiment of affection for the Institution of which we are here a part; to cultivate in the atmosphere here a certain reticence with regard to the affairs of the University, that discriminating reserve which is sometimes associated with the word "gentleman"; and to see to it that to any conduct or expression which tends to impair or to bring in question the dignity of Harvard, there shall naturally attach the plain stamp of infamy...
...that had seldom really known him before. Residents rallied to the war service cause with an enthusiasm and generosity that can never be forgotten. On the whole, it was just a matter of making ourselves known, as one might say, "Mr. and Mrs. Jones, I am a sailor, a gentleman and a human being, just like everyone else," and the reply was, "Glad to meet you, Mr. Sailor; Mrs. Jones and I mean to be hospitable and neighborly. You have no reason to hold aloof and consider us as 'unfriendly civilians.' Come over to dinner Sunday...