Word: gentlemanly
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...sobriety of reunions, say school officials, reflects the nation's changing attitudes toward education: the gentleman songster on a four-year spree has long since given way to the serious student who regards college as the intellectual opportunity of a lifetime. By and large, faculty and administrators are delighted by the seriousness of their alumni. Professors regard reunion lectures as a chance to try out new ideas on a captive, eager audience. And experience has convinced school officials that instilling old grads with ideas rather than iced martinis is a far more effective way of developing pride...
...changing the university itself, ending the era of the "gentleman's college" and initiating new ideals of public and social service into students. The Class of '17 was perhaps the first to feel the effects of this change; they certainly felt it more dramatically than any other...
...late '40's Hollywood took up not far from where it had left off ten years earlier. Movies like The Best Years of Our Lives, Crossfire, and Gentleman's Agreement (not to mention some of the more foolish ones like Pinky) reflected the same social preoccupations which, if in more outspoken and less glossy terms, had characterized American theatre...
There are some problems though. Stewart would have to break a gentleman's agreement that the Masters use to keep their social rules the same. And even then, all major parietal changes must be approved by the Faculty...
From Virtue to Vice. "Three weeks ago, I complimented the gentleman from Louisiana for his tenacity," declared Ohio's Senator Frank J. Lausche last week. "I now change tenacity to obstinacy. What I thought was a virtue three weeks ago, I describe as a vice today." Added Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott: "The proceedings here have humiliated the Senate. I think we have become a laughingstock...