Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sure, from a misunderstanding, and which would be much diminished were the conditions clearly known by which these meetings are governed. We are authorized to say on the part of the Athletic Association, it is expressly stipulated by the President that the judges of the sports shall be gentlemen who are, or have been, in some way connected with the University. This imposed necessity limits the choice to a few; graduates, though they have had great experience, are in many cases unwilling to assume the disagreeable position of judge, and thus, frequently, that office must be filled by an undergraduate...
...second day's sports in the Gymnasium last Saturday afternoon filled the little building to a most uncomfortable degree. Fortunately for the contestants, if not for many others, the request that gentlemen would not smoke was strictly observed, and the air was not so stifling as usual...
...last regular meeting of the Art Club the following gentlemen were elected: President, W. Bates, '79; Treasurer, F. Rindge, '79; Secretary, C. D. March, '80; Custos, W. Blodgett...
...sympathies of the College are extended to those gentlemen in Nat. Hist. 3 who were disappointed in their expectation of finding on the paper the four questions they had anticipated and prepared. Perhaps next time they will trust more to the text-book than to the voice of rumor...
...that they considered such talk as the former silly, and the latter disgraceful, they would ultimately prevent much of the indecent talk now so familiar. We cannot expect to put an end to vicious practices themselves by keeping the fact prominently in view that they are held unworthy of gentlemen, because some persons in college do not feel that this is much of an objection. But we can at least make men prefer to keep their misdoings secret rather than have the effrontery to boast of them publicly. This is a much more wholesome tone, and one that will...