Word: gentlemenly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that any institution of culture, unless its culture is simply dilettant, will always be eager to pay its due share of honor. Harvard owes a public recognition of sympathy in the inauguration of the holiday, and, in the name of the great body of students, we appeal to the gentlemen who are members of the Corporation to declare next Thursday a holiday throughout the University...
...Gentlemen of the University, you have here a noble endowment. Your founders and teachers have noble aims, nothing less than such a course of instruction as shall develop all the powers and fulfil all the capacities of the soul. But remember that your highest duty to your University begins when your immediate connection with it ceases,- that every scholar is bound to become in turn a teacher, a missionary of the higher culture, showing its beauty in his life no less than in the product of his mind, carrying that lamp of enthusiasm which you have kindled here into...
...hearts and throats? Those of us who remember Harvard boys when their blood ran crimson and ran swift, did not recognize the genus that in irreproachable claw-hammers and faultless ties patted well-gloved hands together in rythmic applause that night. Harvard boys? Not a bit of it ! Young gentlemen from Dr. Blimber's own academy, taking an evening out, in charge of Miss Cornelia Blimber-that's what they were, and that's all they were."- Dorothy Lundt, in Boston Transcript...
...intention of the club to devote one meeting a month to an address by one of these gentlemen and to an informal reception at the Colonial Club House, at which the members of the club will be given an opportunity to meet the honorary members...
...gentlemen elected to honorary membership in the club have all signified their acceptancy and their desire and willingness to give a short talk on some matter connected with debating and public speaking, and to meet the members of the University who are interested in public speaking...