Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have obtained the enviable name of "hard men," by their antics during the performance, they should at once be informed that no upper classman regarded their conduct as at all "tough" or "manly." On the contrary, it was considered extremely "soft" and "childish." To say, however, that '83's behavior was childish, is not enough; it was disgraceful. For any conduct on the part of students is disgraceful that calls forth disapproval of its rowdiness from such professed North-End rowdies as packed the Globe Monday, and draws out a rebuke of their want of self-respect and decency from...
...PROFESSOR. What is a function? Junior. Well, sir (deliberately), a fellow's mark, for instance, is, I think, a function of his recitation, his behavior, and the caprice of the Faculty. (Sensation...
...columns to express surprise at the conduct of a part of the Freshman class during Lectures? Every year the class just beginning its college career seems to be expected to improve on its predecessors. Whether this expectation is to be realized or not, depends as much on their good behavior when in the recitation-room as it does on their excellence in their mental and physical capacities. Laying aside the respect due to their instructors, which is apparently of trifling importance to some, the annoyance it gives to those members of the class who wish to get some benefit...
...know that we are asking a great deal, but if there come a nice clear evening next week, would it not be allowable for a few men from seventy-eight, say those who stood highest on the rank list in Required Astronomy, to visit the Observatory? Security for good behavior might be given beforehand at the Secretary's office...
...least disorder of any kind when a slightly improper passage was read. I leave it to the instructors to find the interpretation, and will only say that, if they continue to treat us as school-boys, - or, rather, as school girls, - they must not be surprised at occasional boyish behavior. Prudery should be banished from the place to which it is least suited, - a university...