Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That a professor finds himself capable of giving two courses at the same hour on rather different subjects, as the pamphlet announces in one place, is entirely up to the gentleman in question. But unfortunately, undergraduates have not the corresponding privilege of taking, two courses announced for the same hour. Under most circumstances such an arrangement is quite natural and wholly unobjectionable; yet now and again the impossibility of being in two places at once becomes annoying and makes one wonder whether the authors of the leaflet could not make some allowance...
Georges Carpentier, gentleman boxer and, incidentally, champion pugilist of Europe, went up against Battling Siki, leopard-like negro Senegalese, with the only result that could reasonably have been expected. Not quite that, perhaps--since one might have figured the Frenchman would be killed, and he wasn...
...England for the first time, had beguiled his leisure on the boat by reading the "Tales of a Traveller" by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., and nothing would suit him on landing but to ask to see the place where they put away "Kidd, the Pirate," as that very gallant gentleman is discourteously called. "Kidd, the Pirate," indeed; but this is not all; he is variously described by Mr. Crayon...
...been doing his humble but faithful service to succeeding generations of Harvard men. That in his time he has waited on Lyman Abbott and Albert Bushnell Hart, and many others who years since have become national and even international figures. He will not know that that old colored gentleman has given his entire adult life to the service of Harvard University...
This is certainly a splendid idea; stocked with a battery of such speeches, anyone ought to be a leader in his community, as the circular says. And we inevitably link up such inspiring information with the story of Blenkinson J. Smith, commented on in the same paper. This gentleman-whose name, incidentally, reminds us of J. Throckmorton Cush's we leave to the imagination possible similarities implied by both having J. as initial-but, as we were saying, Mr. Smith is reported to have committed in one day more sins than are recorded in a week's series of book...