Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With this incident fresh in our minds a plea for good behavior tonight when the historical April Fools day rough house is scheduled to take place seems unnecessary. We should demonstrate effectively the depth of our sense of shame. H. L. GADDIS...
...little over a month ago the Graduate Treasurer of Athletics received a letter from Dr. Page, the Physical Director at Phillips Andover Academy, which read as follows: "A so-called 1913 Harvard Basketball team played here on February 7 and their behavior on the floor and in the locker-room was anything but a credit to your College". The matter was investigated for the Athletic Committee and referred by it to the Administrative Board for discipline. At the last meeting of that Board action was taken, and due punishment administered to the guilty parties...
...excursion as a "gaudy vacation" and do not work hard "as unofficial delegates of their country for the cultivation of international friendship." He describes the mass of American tourists in Europe as passing through the country with "an open purse but a closed mind. This careless, haughty, condescending, unfair behavior toward European nations, ultimately the residue of a patriotic view that already belongs to the past" he ascribes partly to the idea with which the nation has grown up--namely, "that it is an English nation, and the immigrants who come from other countries are useful fellow-workers and desirable...
...being made to attract Western men to Cambridge. Whether those efforts shall be furthered or thwarted by this trip depends on the conduct of individual men on the clubs and the impression they give. Disorder will counteract the testimony of graduates and the work of the Faculty; good behavior will go further to disprove sensational attack on Harvard morals than scores of verbal replies...
...failure to see this point was afforded in a certain college that had lately adopted the honor system, when a prominent undergraduate innocently asked the President when the new system was to "take effect." He wished to know how soon he should begin to observe the niceties of behavior required by the new regime...