Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WRITER in the Courant has been amusing himself by some slurs on Mr. Alexander Agassiz and his conduct at Springfield, said slurs beng backed by a clipping from the New Haven (!) Palladium of July 2. The half-made charge of unfairness in the Palladium time has proved unfounded; and we presume that time will also cause the Courant writer to be ashamed of having written a tirade which, while it convinces no one, can harm only the one who wrote...
TAKEN as a whole, the proctors in examinations have, with a few exceptions, acquitted themselves so far rather creditably, - that is, compared with other years, when to judge from the unmistakable earnestness of some complaints which found their way into the College papers, their conduct did not give undivided satisfaction. Therefore we flatter ourselves that, high authority to the contrary notwithstanding, the College press is not without some appreciable influence. This year these literary policemen of ours have not conversed in tones which would disturb men outside of a radius of twenty feet, nor have they dropped the long window...
...AMONG the vast multitude of editorial aspirants who are willing to sacrifice themselves upon the altar of college politics, there certainly can be found the required number of men whose intellects are sufficiently free from the trammels of insipidity and general profundity to conduct this highly intelligent organ in a masterly manner. It is about time that these popular fallacies in regard to the qualifications of college editors were swept away." - Cornell...
...Faculty have abolished boyish regulations, we can see no reason why students should not abolish boyish customs. The performances, which some consider so courageous or witty, of blowing up a drain, or mutilating and stealing College property, show first an absence of appreciation of what constitutes gentlemanly conduct, and second, a disposition to return to the boyish and rowdy habits which have been almost wholly uprooted from our soil...
...Transcript quotes an incident of Soldene's performance at the Globe. Two ladies, we are informed, were obliged by the conduct of Harvard men to leave the house. It is safe to say, that if they were ladies the conduct of those on the stage would have driven them from their seats sooner than the behavior of students in the auditorium...