Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University and second crews rowed short stretches at a high stroke, and the Freshmen took a two-mile paddle up and down stream. In the half-mile scrub race the 1918 four got a poor start and was beaten by the gentlemen's four by a half-length...
...small prize contest for undergraduate poets, which was won by a piece entitled "Gott Mit Uns." Professor Meyer, unfamiliar with conditions here, has hurriedly judged this poem to be a "violation of neutrality," and has taken it to be representative at once of the well-determined sentiments of the gentlemen who pronounced it good verse, of President Lowell, and of Harvard...
...have listened to the lectures of Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith must feel that his death means a real loss to the students of Harvard University. In the inculcation of courtesy which belonged to the older type of gentlemen he has brought home in his successive visits here a lesson than which none is more needed in American life. The value of his teaching moreover has always been exemplified as well as enhanced by his own rare charm of manner and of utterance. Even although his instruction abides in memory we shall yet miss the inspiring example of the teacher. BENJAMIN...
...thereto? Why, for instance, do all the nations of Europe seek to justify themselves before each other and the world by claiming to be waging a purely defensive war? If the opinion of the world can compel men to fight according to rule, to murder and pillage like Christian gentlemen, why can it not compel them to settle their differences according to reason and with-out fighting? He is blind indeed to modern thought who seeks to argue from the world of a century and more ago to the world of today. And he must be wilfully blind who would...
...English play that the Delta Upsilon has revived. "The Beaux' Stratagem," written in 1706, is the best of the plays that Farquhar has left us, and is one of the liveliest comedies of the whole Restoration drama. The scene is laid in the old Litchfield Inn, where two London gentlemen arrive one night in search of a fortune, the one disguised as a servant to the other. Aimwell, the master, goes to church, and promptly falls in love with a woman in the congregation. His friend, Archer, finding out that the woman has a fortune, approves, and very soon falls...