Word: courteously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate wishes to discourage an institution like the Lacrosse Association, a more courteous tone would certainly be more becoming, and would have greater effect than an attempt to brand an organization of fellow-students with epithets as unjust as they are uncalled...
...Bowdoin), Dartmouth, Athenoeum (Williams), Brunonian, and Student (Amherst) have much in common, each being the only representative of its college, and each being industrious in the accumulation of locals. We may be pardoned for preferring the Student above the rest, mainly for its manly and sensible editorials, its generally courteous tone, and the really witty articles that appear from time to time. Were General Garfield not to be our next President, the Athenoeum might be more entertaining reading. Of the Vassar Miscellany we have little to say, because there is so much to praise, so little to - not condemn...
...publish in another column a letter from a correspondent concerning a recent editorial article in the Harvard Echo, - a letter which we do not think is open to the charge of misrepresentation or malicious exaggeration. The Echo has a perfect right to criticise, in a courteous manner, any line of conduct that seems unjust; but it has no right whatsoever to insult an instructor who may have displeased some portion of the men in his elective. Both the matter and the spirit of the article in question call for the severest reproof from all who have any desire that...
...they do they are very bad. The Nassau Lit. feels it necessary to make some reply, and does it by saying that there is a great deal of poetry, better than any the Magazine ever publishes, in the Lit's waste-basket. To such an answer, at once a courteous criticism, an interesting fact, and a complete reply to the Magazine's captious fault-finding, what can be said...