Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reason for their extraordinary conduct. A meeting of a few representative base-ball men was immediately held, and it was decided to inform Yale that she must either stick to her agreement, or consider the game forfeited to Harvard. A telegram to this effect was immediately despatched. This behavior on the part of Yale is certainly peculiar and we trust that she will be able to give good and sufficient reasons for thus breaking her agreement...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I should like to call attention to the behavior of certain freshmen in French I, at the Friday morning recitations. A number of these fellows, who are evidently ignorant of the etiquette not only of college but of common life, have the habit of leaving the lecture room immediately after the roll call. They thus get the credit of going to a recitation, and still spend the hour as they like. Unhappily they do not seem to realize that in their conduct they are guilty of grave discourtesy to the instructor, - a discourtesy which does not come...
...fresh" in word or deed, an elder member need only beckon to him or call out "Bierjunge," when his glass is refilled and he has to empty it in face of the whole company. This is considered a great humiliation and amounts to asking everybody's pardon for his behavior. If, however, the "Fuchs" thinks that he has been unjustly called upon for a "Bierjunge," he can appeal to the president. If the latter sees fit he orders the challenger to drain his glass. This performance is loaded with tremendous odium and the men are very careful about challenging...
Irreverent behavior at prayers...
...young man who was informing him that "he had just returned from a capital little spread at Smith's you know, awful jolly set of fellows, capital time," etc. This convivial youth, we were told, was a Divinity Hall theolog, which fact, taken in connection with his subsequent behavior, we found a little difficult to believe...