Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Washington Tuesday evening a special policeman at the Comique Theatre brought to the central station J. De Soto, the secretary of the Spanish legation, for behaving in the theatre in a boistrous and disorderly manner...
There is evidently some misconception at Yale as to the manner of conduct here; for the Record, writing relative to the recent action of '82 in regard to '85 admittance to the tree, says: "Yet, supposing it to hold in full force, how is it to be carried out? Will the university appoint a vigilance committee to apprehend any stray freshmen who may be found craning their necks among the crowd about the forbidden tree? or will this be the duty of the president ex officio? or will the chivalrous spirit of Harvard smother the sense of injustice in them...
...sorry to see that a little item that we published some time ago in perfect good faith, concerning Mr. Robinson, the trainer, should have created such excitement at Yale, and brought again into prominent notice that familiar feature of Yale character - complete inability to act in a gentlemanly manner under any circumstances, great or small. As the Crimson remarked in a recent issue, it seemed for a while as if there had crawled into the hearts of Yale men, despite the most strenuous opposition, a desire to assume, at least, the semblance of respectability and even courtesy, but we have...
...feared that the purpose will be seriously interfered with before leaving Cambridge. In a few days a notice will be posted, inviting all those who desire to anticipate Rhetoric to assemble at a certain time and place to receive instructions as to the best manner of preparing for the examination. Would-be candidates amounting in number to, perhaps, three-fourths of the class will be surprised to find on assembling that the main efforts of the instructor who receives them is not to make plain how best to study the subject during the summer, in order to successfully take...
...reforms before another year. We fail entirely to see what services the average janitor performs that he should be entitled to the respectable remuneration that he receives. He refuses to do the simplest errands; his most important duty - the supervision of the goodies - he does in the most slipshod manner possible; the only thing be does do promptly is to present his bill "for services rendered" - what irony. He imagines, or else seems to, that his obligations cease after 9 o'clock A. M., and that after this hour he need only ask the occupant of some room...