Word: gentlemanly
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...city admen, in their wistful moments, sometimes talk of giving up the chase for cigarette accounts, moving deep into the country, and dividing their time between gentleman farming and "self-expression...
...bring one of your young ladies whichever is the prettiest in the face." Taking "out his blotter with a loud sniff," Mr. Salteena promptly replies: "Certinly I shall come ... I will bring Ethel Monticue commonly called Miss M. She is very active and pretty ... I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice...
Next day, Mr. Salteena bluntly told Bernard: "You can help me perhaps to be more like a gentleman . . . Well. . . said Bernard I can give you a letter to my old pal the Earl of Clincham ... He might rub you up ... Oh ten thousand thanks said Mr. Salteena ... If you would be so kind as to keep an eye on Ethel while I am away ... I dont think you will find her any trouble." To which Bernard answered warmly, "No I dont think I shall...
...little optimistic, however, in calling the substitution of soccer for football an "inevitable development." College football is a financial investment; the players, just as much as the stadia, are its capital; for advertising purposes, the football hero is made to seem a Man Apart just like the gentleman who drinks Calvert; the sentiments, and finally the pocketbooks, of students and of old grads like Mr. Sayre are appealed to with the calculation of any singing commercial. The buying of football players is America's way of delaying government subsidization of education, which is an inevitable development. But it will...
...support its emotional indulgences, students currently enrolled should not be expected to pay for them. The H.A.A. should be severely curtailed in its operation. Harvard should follow the University of Chicago's approximate twenty year lead and abolish football which is a farce and no game for a gentleman. The compulsory Physical Training program, besides violating the soi disant "freedom of a great university," is an unjustifiable expense. Biddies are a luxury most of us would be sorry to see removed, but if a higher education is to be indirectly refused capable students through the expense of this admirable...