Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true, as reported on the authority of a Virginia paper, that William and Mary College has closed, Yale is advanced to the second position, in respect to age, among American colleges. William and Mary was chartered by the King and Queen of England in 1692, eight years before Yale was founded, and for a long time was the distinctive college of the South. It graduated four Presidents of the United States, and at one time had among its students Chief Justice Marshall and Gen. Scott. But after the incorporation of Hampden-Sidney and the University of Virginia, its catalogue...
...themselves when they drink. The time has been - and that not ages ago - when he was considered the best fellow who could get the fullest. But in a community devoted to education and refinement, such sottishness cannot be of long duration. In no community will a man who looses respect for himself so speedily lose all respect from his fellows and fall so completely from caste. He may continue to be recognized by the men with whom he associates day by day, but unless he reforms his habits, unless he makes more of a gentleman of himself, he cannot hope...
...ever heard of an accident there. How many young and old men find athletic exercise the only safeguard against dyspepsia or insomnia? It is time this tirade against college athletics ceased. American students, despite all that has been said to the contrary, need rather encouragement than discouragement in respect to rational athletic training. - [Turf, Field and Farm...
...Columbia College. "For fifteen years" he says, "a few women have attended the lectures of Professor Rood and myself, and to reach our lecture rooms were compelled to traverse halls and stairways where they encountered a large number of students, and yet they were always treated with perfect respect, and their presence in the lecture rooms made the classes more quiet and attentive because it put them on their good behavior...
...another time it will perhaps be well to appeal more directly to the faculty with respect to that other grievance, which gives us Wednesday as the vacant day of an examination week, instead of Monday, the proper day. But this matter cannot be remedied until the faculty fix the schedule for the annuals...