Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...late, for much improvement must come if we are now to equal our record of last year. The hard and conscientious work of the captain does not deserve the disappointing result of Saturday's game, and it is not to him that blame can in any manner be affixed. But that there is something the matter is perfectly evident, and it lays with him to find out its cause and nature. The contesting teams were as follows...
...attention in the arrangement of the curriculum to the exact and comprehensive study of our mother tongue. However this may be, it is certain that the department of modern English and of theme instruction in the college is very much in need of reorganizing or of strengthening in some manner or other. The prescribed courses given in this department have never been popular, and according to the common opinion have met with a very slight success in accomplishing the end aimed at. What plan the college can adopt to improve it in this respect it is difficult to suggest...
This is the manner in which the News talks to Yale '87 : "We must be allowed the privilege of informing the freshman class that the university foot-ball authorities will not allow them to play any game with Harvard unless they put in the field a team with some claim to a decent proficiency in the game. When other freshmen classes have sent thirty men to the park from the first of the season, the class of '87 has never at one time had more than six. Six men out of 170 ! When you entered this college you no doubt...
...society to spread its principles by having men who practiced these principles, and whom the mass of students were bound to respect, to come to Cambridge and address public meetings of the society. We do not wish to conduct ourselves as fanatics, but in a manly, dignified manner deport ourselves according to the principles we represent, so as to obtain at least the respect and good will of the majority of our fellow students...
...repeat that we think that no one need be in the least discouraged by Saturday's game, but on the contrary they should feel very great confidence in the team of 1883, and express it in a substantial manner both by their presence at practice and by subscribing liberally to the funds of the Foot-Ball Association...