Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that so strong a friendship should spring up as exists in numerous instances. Nearly half of the students belong to the fraternities, of which we have seven, and, from what knowledge I have of similar societies in other colleges, nowhere, I think, are they conducted in quite the same manner as here...
...hardly the function of the college to use its degree bestowing power in such manner as either to help or overthrow any politician. Its officers have nothing to do with Butler's chances at the polls, or with his popularity as a demagogue. Their duty is simply to see that the university suffers no damage as an institution of learning and a teacher of morals. It is dedicated to "Christo et Ecclesiae," and has "Veritas" for the motto on its coat-of-arms; and what has Butler to do with Christ and His Church or with "Truth?" If it discovers...
...course there is no real harm in an ordinary governor's mangling a quotation in this manner, but that one who aspired to a Harvard degree on the ground of his learning should thus betray himself is truly painful...
...impute the meanest of motives to his opponents, and should indulge in the most scurrilous language in relation to their action, is by no means surprising nor unexpected when we consider the notorious character of the man and the semi-political bearing of the occasion. But that, after the manner of the cheapest politician, the Governor of Massachusetts, in a newspaper interview, should indulge in bombastic threats against Harvard College - this, certainly, is a matter in which no Harvard man can afford to take an indifferent interest...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: There has appeared in the columns of your paper a communication from R. B., attacking the Glee Club in a manner that requires answering; and it is perhaps well that the answer be made by one who, while himself not a member of the club, is yet interested in its welfare. To answer the last and least important objection first, the Glee Club, to my certain knowledge, was never asked to furnish a quartette at the Pi Eta theatricals. Individual members were approached and were finally obliged to refuse to sing on account of the bad condition...