Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...GENTLEMEN-Will you kindly inform a graduate, former editor, lover of foot ball, and present reader of your paper, what ground you have for the assertion you make in your issue of the 26th inst., that "for years it (a dual league) has been talked of and considered the final solution of all difficulties? " Has not this talk been confined to Harvard, and if so is it not worse than useless? Yale has complete control in the matter, as she is wanted by all parties. When she submits to us a proposition for a dual league, it will be well...
...present foot-ball controversy between Princeton and Harvard will have a tendency of course to bring out expressions of ill-feeling in the excitement of this afternoon; but this must not be. We cannot afford as gentlemen to depart from the position we have thus far taken, and every inclination to hiss or call out to the players must be summarily suppressed...
Professor William R. Harper has been chosen to fill the new chair of Bibilical literature at Yale. The foundation for the professorship, $50,000, has been given by a few gentlemen who desire their names to remain unknown. The object of the new chair of instruction is, as expressed by the donors, to impart an intelligent apprehension of the English Bible, with a view to stimulating an earnest Christian faith and developing a manly Christian life. In commemoration of the late President Woolsey the professorship will be called the Woolsey professorship...
...Brown, '90, has made 1001 runs in all this year, which is a record in American cricket. He played forty innings, three not outs, which gives him an average for all matches of 27.05 His highest score was 111, which he made in the second innings of the Gentlemen of Philadelpia against Dublin university; he also made a 102 for Philadelphia vs. Liverpool, but his best performance was against the Gentlemen of Ireland, when he made in Philadelphia's second innings, 81, with out a mistake...
...short Episcopal service in the rooms of the St. Paul's Society last evening. Rev. Mr. Smith did not choose a text for his sermon but spoke on the qualities of a true gentleman. He said that the Episcopal clrurch had been accused of being a church for gentlemen. He hoped that this was true, and that the members were all gentlemen in the true sense of the word. A gentleman must scorn everything dishonorable. He must lead a spiritual life through faith in Jesus Christ. He should study Christ through the Bible as he would study any great character...