Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certainly seems as though the requests for subscriptions, sent out by the treasurer of the university crew, might meet with a gentlemanly response. One of the postals sent out has been returned with no signature, and cut and torn in a most insulting manner. If this was done intentionally, and there is every reason to believe that such was the case, we cannot find terms emphatic enough in which to characterize the act. Certainly it was not the act of a gentleman. Certainly no man in college, if he possesses a spark of college feeling, would be offended...
...limited exhibitions in comparatively small rooms devoted to special objects, as compared with the usual museum arrangements, by which all the collections of an establishment are thrown open to visitors, without any attempt to select the more important or interesting objects, or to arrange them in an instructive manner. As soon as the new geological and biological laboratories of the corner-piece are occupied, probably at the commencement of the next academic year, the same arrangement will be extended to the geological and palaeoutological collections...
Another glaring fault is seen in the department of English. While the elective courses in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Beowulf are conducted in the most unexceptionable manner, the required work of the department (the only work required after freshmen year) is notoriously a failure. The instruction in rhetoric is ridiculous and imbecile, while the so-called "instruction" in forensics consists in handing in a few sheets of paper every two months and in being marked upon the same, not a word of advice or criticism ever being given. In themes, however, the written exercise is returned with some cabalistic pencil marks...
...University crew has been making steady improvement under Col. Bancroft's instruction, and rows in a manner gratifying to all interested in Harvard's success. The time is good and the oars fall well together; there is, however, a tendency in the oars to come up in the middle of the stroke, and the slides are hurried down while the leg force is not put on with enough snap. Stroke does not swing enough; five does not face his oar enough and bow clips; No. 4 lets his slide go too soon and does not catch deep enough. Sawyer...
...vacation. As the shell seules to port in the stern six and stroke are compelled to row under disadvantages; stroke dips too deep and six does not lace his blade enough. No. 7 swings crooked and too far, while No. 3 handles himself and oar in a generally loose manner. Nos. 2, 4 and 5 do not get their oars down on the full reach while the bow four all "sliver out" at the finish. No 5 is rowing in very good general form, and will undoubtedly prove to be one of the strongest and most effective oars...