Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nevertheless, while colors, shades, mixed goods, plain goods, and Scotch goods were dismissed from mind, there still remained the question of the cut, which I had promised to settle at some future time. A man's clothes at Harvard are somewhat like the ablative in Latin: they express manner, means, quality-and price. Hence I could not but ponder with much anxiety on the question, how long the coattails should be, if indeed it were not better to stick to the old-fashioned sack, and how large a pair of shoes the trousers should be made to admit...
...discontent expressed at the promptness with which the lights are turned out at the appointed time, this touches, not the rule itself, but the manner in which it is carried out. There would be exactly as much growling if the lights were put out promptly at six o'clock. The malcontents do not seem to appreciate that a rule, especially one that has to deal with such a large number of individuals, to be of any use, must be rigidly enforced...
...than eight to pass, and in reducing the per cents of these to the lowest possible figure, becomes a matter for something more than ridicule. If the English instructors desire to see Rhetoric abolished as a required study, they are certainly going to work in a most far-sighted manner...
...regard to the manner in which a grant to the ground was obtained, it is hardly fair to accuse the Association of injustice or discourtesy; certainly nothing unjust or discourteous was intended...
...silent; and Sue, discouraged by having her pet subject received in so cool a manner, changed the conversation. "Have you seen the arrivals?" she asked...