Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born at St. Mark's, raised at St. Mark's, educated at St. Mark's, and after four years at Princeton and one at Yale, had returned to St. Mark's as a teacher. He was William Wyatt Barber Jr., a squirish, 39-year-old gentleman with a wife named Peg and a dog named Thor...
...department to keep its hierarchy happy--or to serve the best possible food to undergraduates? And no one brought up the matter of the member of the official Visiting Committee on Food who suggested that Vice-President Reynolds hire a competent outside authority to scrutinize Dining Hall operations. This gentleman recognized the fact that the Visiting Committee lacked both the time and the technical know-how to attempt a thorough investigation. His proposal that a group of non-University experts do the job was quite pertinent, but this sensible idea also failed to appear during the Council's open meeting...
...Names. It was, for the most part, the age of Charles W. Eliot, for 40 years (1869-1909) Harvard's president and the grand seigneur of U.S. education. He was an erect and lofty gentleman, who "always had a fight on my hands," and who could be both imperious and impatient in waging it. "Do you suppose," an awed acquaintance once whispered to a colleague, "that anyone has ever called him Charley...
...owner-driver, who was in it at the time. They also uprooted a traffic beacon and thrust it through the glass door of a shop. Near Christ's Lane, a car was seized and attempts were made to overturn it. The occupants, an old lady and gentleman, were severely shaken and the lady collapsed...
...very best C-student in Harvard College." This credo strikes me as representing fairly accurately a growing attitude in Harvard today. A man wants to learn something, but not too much; he wants to learn something, but not to hard; he wants to be the least gentlemanly of the gentleman C boys, but may the good Lord keep him from becoming a grind...