Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...regular attendance from graduates who are not members of the Faculty. The graduate contingent of men who at College knew athletic sport from the inside, and who now can look at it through the perspective of middle life, is essential to a balanced organization; no one of these three gentlemen attends a single meeting without showing himself valuable if not invaluable; the trouble is that the professional or business engagements of men of their calibre make continuity of service impossible. At fourteen meetings, their combined attendance amounted to twelve out of a maximum of forty-two; and at each...
...among the undergraduate spectators. Rules, though powerless to change the spirit of the players, might close their mouths, to the spectators' relief. The conduct of the great body of undergraduates on the field can never be changed till their leaders see what that conduct really means. These leaders are gentlemen, and hence capable of seeing it; but the tradition of recent baseball is not the tradition of recent baseball is not the tradition of gentlemen, and the gentlemen are overpowered by the tradition. That the gentlemanly instinct at Harvard dies hard is shown by the half-hearted and inefficient manner...
...Mine, going there twice a year and often more, passing a week or ten days, following each development, ordering new machinery when necessary and, in short, guiding the work. This was all done with the advice and assistance of his brother-in-law, Mr. Shaw, and, indeed, these two gentlemen developed a great property and made it a wonder of safety and good management. To the end he was as simple in his ways and as kindly and affectionate in his greetings to old friends as a man could be, and the change from the boy to the man often...