Word: courteous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...several other colleges visiting Cambridge with their teams, while every Harvard graduate not a member is debarred. At such times the admission of alumni might be permitted without any appreciable loss in membership, -- it might even result in a gain. Such a change would seem to be both courteous to the graduates and in keeping with the broad principles on which the Union is founded...
Professor Lyon testifies to the courteous consideration of their Excellencies Hamdi Bey and Khalil Bey of the Imperial Museum, from which a commissioner was sent, according to law, to take possession for the Museum of such objects as might be found...
...Firm, courteous, patient, wise, he has made the strenuous service of the College a satisfaction never to be forgotten by his associates in this Board...
...entirely in the admission bleachers, the sentiments of which no one couples with the University. The presence of unescorted ladies at the games up to this escorted ladies at the games up to this time is most complimentary and has shown that they have felt sure of a courteous reception. To alter this impression in their minds is an ungentlemanly and unexcusable breach of etiquette. They are our guests and should be treated as such...
...editorial yesterday morning you speak of "the discourtesy of the attendants at Gore Hall, especially those in the Reading Room." This loose and sweeping criticism is entirely undeserved. I do not speak of the attendants in the Reading Room, who have always been courteous to me, but of the large number of officers and attendants in charge of the Delivery Room. As a graduate student of three years' standing, who has probably used the good offices of the Delivery Room as much as, and abused its regulations more than most students of the University, I beg to testify...