Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dinner tendered the Yale nine by Harvard, '86, at the Quincy House Saturday night, was in every respect a decided success. The committee which had the affair in charge is to be congratulated on the perfection of all the arrangements...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD. I wish to add one more complaint to the numerous ones which have been directed against the examinations. The examination in Political Economy 2 was fair in every respect except one. There was one question asked in which the writers of the thesis on that particular question (a thesis is written during the year on topics given out by the instructor) certainly had a decided advantage over the other members of the class. These last few unfortunates were supposed to glean as much knowledge from the reading of parts of the various theses, as days of research...
...Post remarks with considerable heat: A majority of the overseers of Harvard University, having done just what they should not have done with respect to the question of conferring a degree upon the governor, and having thus committed the great institution to a policy of narrow-minded exclusiveness utterly unworthy of it, and, so far as we have been able to judge, condemned by the sons of the college generally, perhaps it is unprofitable to further discuss the matter. As Dundreary used to say to his valet, "You go to the devil and there you are." Harvard has simply made...
...such occasions as the recent inter-collegiate meeting in New York, therefore, it should be our first effort to act so as to gain the approbation of the omniscient scribes who report for these journals. It is with feelings of the deepest delight that we notice that in one respect that meeting was an improvement over previous ones. "The spectators," we are informed by the Spirit of the Times, "were not so offensively and boisterously enthusiastic as in former years, and the din of college yells was less deafening than usual." This is truly gratifying. Some have heretofore erroneously supposed...
...innings, and Baker made a brilliant stop of a hit from Child's in the seventh. Great credit is due Nichols, Allen and Smith. Their play throughout was as steady as that of veterans, Allen's throwing to second being quick and accurate, and Nichols' pitching admirable in every respect, while Smith, besides covering first in his usual faultless manner, did the only good work at the bat for Harvard...