Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...offer a subscription cup of the value of twenty-five dollars for a half-mile race, to be held at such time and place as the Athletic Association may appoint. Mr. Griswold and Mr. W. Hooper of '80 started the cup-subscription. We would, however, suggest to these gentlemen to divide the money, and give fifteen dollars for a half and ten dollars for a quarter-mile cup. It is now in order for the other College papers, club-tables, etc., to subscribe for cups, and in this way a splendid meeting can be held near the last...
...uniform in which the Rifle Corps appeared this week, and which was furnished by several gentlemen of Boston who are interested in the corps, is chaste if not magnificent. It consists of a dark blue coat, cut like a West Point dress-coat, with white lacing and facings, trousers to match, and a blue cap with white pompon. The officers are distinguished from the privates by their gold lacing and facings and crimson pompons, as well as by their style...
...enter six weeks before the regatta, and pay their entrance-fees then, is condemned on all sides. No reason can be assigned for such a step save that the English amateurs do not wish to row against oarsmen who are mechanics, and do not come under the head of "gentlemen" as they define the word. Either this or a wholesome fear of American oarsmen has influenced the regatta committee in taking this very unfair and unsportsmanlike stand...
...gentlemen started on a journey from London to York by horse, distance 195 1/4 miles. One of the horses died midway on the road, and the other, after being braced up by twelve bottles of wine, accomplished the journey...
...balanced himself on the edge of (apparently) a dining-room table, as if he had suddenly felt faint and needed support. There was always a doubt in my mind whether he was Sir Philip Sidney or the Chevalier Bayard. I always supposed him to be the former of those gentlemen, on the historical occasion when he needed a glass of water to "brace him up"; but whoever he was, he tarried with us but a little while. It was said that he had been "caved in" by a strong wind, and needed strengthening, so we were led to believe that...