Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...among the audience to consider him conceited, for there was much ego in his speech. He took much trouble, too, to discuss the opinions of his predecessors as to the proper motion in each case, always differing from them, and to explain his views he used practical illustrations. "Now, gentlemen," he would often say, "this I consider to be the only philosophical attack in such a case. But others have entertained different opinions, the foolishness of which I shall show you immediately." Turning to an attendant, he said, "Bring up Professor Reid." The attendant brought in a thin, white-haired...
Barnum's.PROVIDENCE has of late been exceeding kind to our beloved University in preserving to us the lives of three of the Holworthy Aristocracy. These gentlemen were visiting Barnum's World's Fair at the time when the terrific tornado struck the canvas palace, filling the hearts of all with terror and consternation. Amid the howls of the affrighted animals, the shrieks of women, and the thunder of the elements, they rushed round (as did several thousand others) with a stoical indifference to their personal peril, and besought all to calm themselves. It was owing to their superhuman exertions that...
...subject is boldly and originally treated. We recognize the right of literary ladies and gentlemen, founded on custom, to paint us very black indeed; but we are used to being saved at the eleventh hour, and demand it as a right. We cannot, therefore, commend this poem for its sentiment, although the execution is eminently artistic...
...carried out in the broad spirit in which it was conceived. There has also been formed recently an association called the Boston Art Club, which is to have rooms in the museum, but is now in rather close quarters on Boylston Street. This club, composed of artists and gentlemen interested in art, serves the very important purpose of bringing into more personal relations a class of men who can be of the greatest benefit to each other...
...there more Congregationalists; both parties are what they are rather from education and prejudice than from rational understanding and acceptance of doctrine. What choice, therefore, is there between them? The schoolmaster distinguished us from them by saying that while we have the look materialistic, they have the look of "gentlemen rowdies." 'T is a rude expression, and I would not use it myself; but it shows the opinion of our Wesleyan friend to have been the same as mine, that Harvard is not much worse than Yale; while we are deficient in faith, they are deficient in works...