Word: respects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...into practice his knowledge that counts in this world. He then referred to the gentlemanly conduct of Cornell students in previous years at Saratoga and Lake George where their races are held, and hoped that they would keep up the good reputation of the college in this respect...
...requesting the discontinuance of the habit of scraping and stamping the feet on the arrival and departure of the professor, and advised instead the practice in vogue elsewhere of rising and standing during the entrance and exit of a favorite instructor. Student custom in Germany varies somewhat in this respect. The professor usually comes in after his audience is assembled and generally leaves before the others withdraw. In many places his coming and going receive no attention unless he be advanced in age, or particularly esteemed. Signs of respect are then shown either by rising and bowing...
...very fine. Peters, Bayne, and Robinson, also distinguished themselves, while Coxe made his weight useful. Yale's passing and blocking were good, and the men got down on the ball in good shape. They had little tackling to do, so that one cannot judge of them in that respect. The perfection of team play was not quite up to the Princeton standard...
...strongly urges that the freshman foot ball game be given up, unless the game can be played before Thanksgiving. The writer says that "it seems as if it were time to take a decided stand and let Harvard know that Yale has some rights which they are bound to respect...
...said that the number of freshmen at Oxford this term is unprecedentedly large. Students of narrow means are much more numerous than twenty years ago; in fact, in this respect, Oxford seems to be returning to the sixteenth century, when the sons of persons in what in England is called the lower middle class-yeomen, shopkeepers, etc.-made up much of the university...