Word: reproofs
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...best way to administer the reproof is without rudeness, and it appears to us that the sending of the head-waiter to request the removal of the obnoxious tile is a perfectly polite and gentlemanly manner of effecting this, and that it ought to be put into practice in every case where such a breach of etiquette occurs...
...Yale papers have assumed a very religious tone. The Record has become almost High-Church in its views of life. It has determined to mortify the flesh, during the "Lenten season," by refraining from its habitual "pastime of gentle reproof and delicate personalities." Any one who is familiar with the columns of the Record will at once appreciate the extent of its self-denial...
...allusions, however, to gentlemen who are fellow-students, combined with a narrow-minded misrepresentation of the recent liberal reform, do demand consideration. An unsparing rebuke, it seems to me, was called for, in which it might be profitable to merge the amenities of ordinary discussion into the severity of reproof...
...more cases of sneak thieves entering students' rooms have recently occurred. Fortunately they were detected before opportunity had been offered to exercise their trade, and in one case they received a necessary reproof. It is said that two or three such characters have been seen in the neighborhood of the buildings, and it is proper that students should be on their guard...
...frequent drawbridge. No gas-works as yet disturbed the sylvan freshness of the scene; horse-car tracks were unknown; the classic shades of Harvard held peaceful sway from their throne of elms to the hills beyond the meadows. Peelers were unknown; offenders against the peace feared rather a dignified reproof in the shape of a few lines of good old Anacreon, than the rubicund justice of a Portchuck beak. Even the mucker element (which we may consider represented by the associates of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck) was more in sympathy with the unfettered student and the lurking proctor, than the peremptory...