Word: graces
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee beg every man in Eighty-Four to remember that the officers elected, however contrary to his own wishes, will represent the desire of the majority of the class ; and that therefore it is only gentlemanly to acquiesce in the result of the elections with the best possible grace, and do everything in his power to make the class day of Eighty-Four a pleasant and successful...
...ball. Having selected a suitable spot he brought out an egg-shaped article covered with yellow leather and deposited it with tender care on the spot. Then a slim boyish looking fellow took half a dozen quick steps forward and let out at the ball with all the grace and force of the hereafter of a Kentucky mule. The ball sailed away into the air, and the entire crowd went tearing after it. It came down and bounded once. A Wesleyan man seized it, and a Princeton man seized him, and, after slinging him round and round two or three...
...aristocracy and country gentlemen who are not fitting themselves to earn a living, but only to guide and adorn society. Most of these men come up to university, not to give much time to academic work, but to receive that air of refinement and that touch of grace which tradition says one only gets at Oxford or Cambridge. Their academic work has been done already at one of the great public schools or under private tutors. Then the boating, the foot-ball, the cricket, the tennis, the hunting, the intercourse with "fellows," "scholars," lecturers, and professors, the acquaintances...
...committee beg every man in Eighty-Four to remember that the officers elected, however contrary to his own wishes, will represent the desire of the majority of the class; and that therefore it is only gentlemanly to acquiesce in the result of the elections with the best possible grace, and do everything in his power to make the class day of Eighty-Four a pleasant and successful...
...developing the material out of which statesmen are made broadening the opinions of men of many states, and the very men who could if they would, and should if they could, have an influence for the better in politics, it is worth an effort in this year of grace...