Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dismounts do not seem to us the most enjoyable features of bicycling. Winter, in our opinion, is the time to give the bicycle a rest and to be contented with the old-fashioned sleigh. Bicycling in the proper seasons is a most healthful exercise and a very fascinating manner of progression, but in the winter it is entirely out of place, and seems like having picnics in January. If winter riding be practicable, the Columbia Bicycle Co. should immediately establish an agency in Greenland, and introduce their machine among the Esquimaux...
...having other resources upon which to rely, as well as the knowledge that all losses could be soon made up afterwards. It is evident that all the students are desirous that some permanent arrangement could be made and continued, and if all would manifest their desires in a tangible manner, success would be assured. The project has recently been revived by a worthy and capable young man, whose interests are identical with those of the other students, and who wishes only to make slight profits, such as will repay him for his trouble and time. But Mr. Sever has already...
...outrageous proceedings of the last night went beyond the average, and the villagers were awakened by the shock to a new sense of their own consequence, their own rights and their own powers." If Dr. McCosh really wishes to curb the spirits of his students in an effective manner, we advise him not to bind them down by petty rules and regulations that are more fitted for a primary school than for a college; but to come to Cambridge, and study the system employed at Harvard; then let him go back and give the Princeton students the liberty and freedom...
...board at Memorial," for it makes very little difference to me whether it is $4 per week, or $6, for my bills are sent home to be settled by my paternal parent. But I would like to ask a few questions concerning the quality of the board, and the manner in which it is served. Why is it that when a person orders toast, for instance, he cannot have warm toast, instead of some stuff that tastes as if it had been toasted several days before? Why is it that if a person happens to arrive a few minutes after...
...Whose manner was yearning and mild...