Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surprised to fine a lack of vigor and energy in the work of both nine and crew. Men who can afford to strut about the college yard smoking Turkish cigarettes and expensive tobacco in handsome meerschaums, bragging of their eleven (the "finest), ought certainly to have the self-respect to meet the expenses of a victorious team, or enjoy the reputation of unparalleled selfishness and lethargy...
...suffering people to have some fifteen or twenty men come thundering along behind them on any of the other streets of Cambridge; especially as it is now the fashion to wear strictly gymnasium costumes regardless of appearances. We have rights, but so have the citizens of Cambridge. Let us respect them...
...appears that history was first taught in what was then a unique way for America. The Rev. John Gross, Professor of German and Geography, from 1784 to 1795, taught the sophomore class three times a week, in a course which was characterized as a "Description of the globe in respect of all matters: Rise, extent and fall of ancient empires; chronology as low as the fall of the Roman Empire; present state of the world; origin of the present States and Kingdoms-their extent, power, commerce, religions and customs; modern chronology." This was history with an ancient and geographical basis...
...while this state of things is an advantage to Yale in aiding her to satisfy her ambition for conquest in the field, it is a great disadvantage to her in every other respect, for it lowers the general tone of the college and causes that marked contrast between the swaggering type which, in a way, represents Yale, and the more refined type which is conceded to Harvard. It creates a sentiment among her alumni which enables them to listen with proud and beaming countenances to a speech as rowdies in character as that celebrated speech of Peters of the Bones...
...qualities of courage, perseverance, loyalty, and a high sense of honor." This is a sentiment which must commend itself to all earnest, thinking men. It is undoubtedly the true way to look at athletics; and to reach this result, Mr. Wendell contends, the athlete must begin with a thorough respect for and appreciation of his sport; and he must especially avoid all tricks and underhand practices. That part of the article which relates to the college faculty and to "professionalism" is especially worthy of study, inasmuch as there has been so much discussion on the subject at Harvard of late...