Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...considerable interest. The first bout was between W. A. Henry, Jr., S. S., and S. H. Ordway, L. S. Ordway won the bout by 7 points to 3. In the second bout the contest was between W. O. Underwood, '84, and R. H. McDonald, '82. McDonald, by his peculiar manner of guarding and thrusting, provoked much laughter and applause. Underwood was the more cool and skilful, while McDonald showed great activity and quickness, although he was awkward and lacked science. The bout was awarded to Underwood by a score of 7 points...
...such an organization, and all will agree that it is high time for steps to be taken to prevent the almost proverbial victory of Yale's Freshman Nines. Many minor advantages could be suggested, such as the extra inducement for regular practice to foot-ball men, a more efficient manner of training for 'Varsity substitutes, and the evidently desirable opportunity for the regular 'Varsity to practice as a nine instead of separately, as is now necessary. If a second nine is to be formed it is surely time to take the first steps, and we hope it will be immediately...
...either become insignificant, or have wholly disappeared. A few years ago an effort was made to organize a club, but with little success. It was proposed to have a regular club-room, with the proverbial tea served to players, and in short it was to be fashioned after the manner of the whist clubs so famous in London during the past century. The latter scheme was soon recognized as impracticable, for reasons that will readily be apparent. It seems, however, that there are enough ardent admirers of the game in college to establish some sort of an organization which...
...Williams Athenoeum, seemingly ignorant of the fact that Oscar has retired to the obscurity of the "far West," acknowledges its ignorance of the meaning of aestheticism, and gives vent to its feelings on the subject in the following manner : "O, for a brazen throated hundred tongued volubility to comprehend and define this sky scraping aestheticism, this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality...
...objects very smartly because we say "to the manner born," instead of "to the manor born" (we suppose). "Such is culture," it says. The Era is, we fear, a little too previous. We do not care to discuss questions of Shakespearean text-interpretations in these columns, and we will only refer the Era to the discussions of the best critics on this matter, and it will see that we have plenty of justification (besides all common sense, etc.,) to sustain us in this reading...