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Word: courteously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1880
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

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