Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boat-clubs situated at New York, Newark, Albany, Providence, Philadelphia (2), Baltimore, Detroit, and Chicago, and who were all (save the last named) in attendance at the regular semi-annual meeting held in this city, January 11. I myself was present there by invitation, and was impressed by the straightforward, business-like way in which the accumulated work of the evening was disposed of. These men who manage the association do not make any money by it, nor advertise any locality through it, nor grind any axes with it. Their inspiring motive, so far as an outsider of some experience...
...Senior Class entered the crowded auditorium and took their seats in the parquet. Dr. Peabody made the opening prayer. The Oration, which was delivered by Mr. Charles Moore, related to young men in politics. His views of the present condition of the Civil Service were bold, yet thoughtful, straightforward, but not opinionated, and were received with applause by the audience in the galleries as well as by his class. There was a judicious absence of the "spread eagle" in this oration...
...which they gave us, they are entitled to thanks. It is due to them, we may say entirely, that we have decided to row at Saratoga next summer, and because we have adopted this course we are pronounced by the outside world to have acted in a fair and straightforward manner. If we had severed immediately our connection with the Association, we should ourselves have felt satisfied that we were perfectly justified in our action; but as the general public would never have properly understood our motives, it is as well, perhaps, that we took a course which will...
...feeling between classes of college men is perfectly unnecessary, we think, as the wrong acts of individual men should not be visited upon their colleges. If collegiate regattas are to breed hatred and coin hard names, they had better be discontinued; but we sincerely hope for such manly, straightforward legislation, in the next convention of colleges, that the difficulties of the past may be cancelled, and those of the future prevented...
...longer, and cease trying to give expression to a creed we no longer profess? It would require some determination, perhaps; the young ladies might look a little chagrined when we told them that there would be no dancing and hugging about the tree; but it would be manly and straightforward, and we could no longer be accused of cant. But there is a question where this principle applies in a much more serious manner. I refer to the question whether the chaplainship is now anything more than a solemn sort of blasphemy. This is not a subject on which...