Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Donnelly, one of the goodies who took care of the rooms in the north entry of Thayer, died Saturday morning, Dec. 31. She had been in the service of the college for seventeen years. She will be remembered by a large number of students for the kind and obliging manner with which she performed her humble ministrations...
...Croswell was to read from "Theocritus" last Wednesday evening, in Sever Hall. Although Mr. Croswell's reading was unusually interesting, only twenty-five persons cared enough about hearing it to take the trouble to walk to Sever. Many fine lectures of late have been slighted in this manner. If the students would think of the vast amount of trouble that lecturers often put themselves to, so that they may appear before a Harvard audience, and the disappointment that they must feel at seeing evidence of so small an appreciation of their efforts, we think the students would give them...
...seems that roughness and brutality are as common in foot ball in England as between certain colleges in our own country. It is carried to such an extent that the present manner of playing has excited severe newspaper criticism. In comparing foot ball with other sports, one. English journal says: "We should hear of more casualities in the cricket field, for instance, if a sinewy fielder were allowed to trip up and throw a sparely-built batsman, or had the option of felling him to the ground by hurling a ball at his head; and there would be accidents innumerable...
...kindly courtesies to distinguished guests, notably of late, when our French visitors, the descendants of Lafayette, Rochambeau, De Grasse, and others, our Revolutionary allies, under the escort of the representatives of the city government, were received by the president, faculty, and students in a most becoming manner. I should also recognize the interest of its officers in our municipal affairs. In our seasons of joy or of sorrow, the president, with a courtesy which I here desire to acknowledge, has ever responded to our call. Our board of school committee was long graced by the active service and the ever...
While I, seeking for the appropriate words and requisite rhyme to express in an equally original manner the fact that her cheeks were also like roses, whereas her eyes and hair were not, she interrupted all further flow of inward poesy by inquiring, in a tone of ill-omened penetrativenes...