Word: courteously
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boat-races too well to feel sure of anything except that she will try her best. Most of the bad feeling between the two Colleges arises from such groundless suspicions of one another, as Yale's belief in this statement indicates. We hope that Yale will believe Harvard too courteous, at least, to make such insulting boasts...
...assurance of many ladies that partners are all they demand for the evening. Full satisfaction will be given the ladies by the certainty they will not be left to ornament the corners. If they are kind enough to come at all to Cambridge, it is certainly no more than courteous of us to place ourselves at their disposal, and to do all we can to make the evening pass as agreeably as possible...
...REPORT of the Freshman foot-ball match between the Yale and Harvard will be found in another column, but the courteous treatment the visitors met with at New Haven deserves especial mention. The Harvard Freshmen were received on the field with hearty applause, which was repeated frequently during the game. After the match they enjoyed the hospitality of the Yale Freshmen, who gave them a supper, and who entertained, during the evening, all the Harvard men who were in the city...
...general play was very fine. Carter did not prove as effective as before, but he is always a hard man to hit. The rest played rather poorly, as the score will show. Their occasional brilliant plays were fully recognized, and applauded by the audience in an impartial and courteous spirit, which New Haven audiences would do well to imitate. The umpiring was excellent, and thoroughly satisfactory...
...Yale Lit is lighter this month than usual, but it is no less readable on that account. In the criticism of Deirdre, the author prefers, with Philip Gilbert Hammerton, to praise, than with the Nation to condemn. One of the best things in the Lit is the following courteous explanation: "We have an explanation for the Cornell Era, that referred to us rather discourteously in a late issue. The color of our cover was chosen for us, dear Era, O, ever so long ago, long before we came here; long before it was suggested to the great Mr. Cornell...