Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Neither of these classes have any time to spare to think of their behavior. As long as they do nothing downright indecent they are contented; and I am sorry to say that the world is very apt to be contented too. At the same time, as somebody or other said, there was never a spot on earth so wicked that a man could not live a good life there if he wanted to; and there never was a place where manners were so horribly bad that a man who chose to be well-bred could-not succeed. I have seen...
...cannot find time to attend to the manners and morals of her children; and the natural consequence is that some of these children fall into the very objectionable practice of eating with their knives, while others, of a more vicious if more elegant temperament, indulge in various excesses of behavior and language which cannot command the approval of sober-minded men. At the same time, there is a good side to all this. Every man must sooner or later learn to take care of himself; and nowadays most men come to college at an age when this lesson...
...that the undergraduate is not looked upon now as he was in the times of our fathers: "The view taken of him heretofore has been that he was not an adult, and that the college, having him under tutelage as well as under tuition, had some responsibility for his behavior. But the elective system presupposes that the student is an adult able to take care of himself and responsible for his own conduct in the same way and to the same extent as any other citizen." Now, inasmuch as the ordinary citizen is not compelled, early in the morning...
...they see no reason for further exertion; and they are so anxious to acquaint themselves with the new phase of existence which they erroneously term life, that they find no time for anything else. Their college work is sure to be neglected. Their half-stupid, half-mischievous, wholly careless behavior in the recitation-rooms is sure to exasperate their tutors to the point of numerous warnings...
...into his plate tart after tart that I am vainly endeavoring to get at (I may remark, parenthetically, that I am physically small and weak), yet the man is so perfectly pleasant about it that in the present state of affairs I cannot publicly proclaim my disgust at his behavior...