Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale faculty to induce them to abolish professional practice at that college. Here, it seems to us, the faculty is at fault. Even supposing such an arrangement could be made, which is a matter of great doubt, the faculty would find further obstacles in this path of reform. The gentlemen who compose the faculty at Yale know too well the advantages of athletic victories. President Dwight believes in athletics as a strong element in college life; in other words, he is as much delighted as any undergraduate at Yale when the college wins a victory. And, unless we are very...
...time for the theatricals which are to be given tomorrow evening in the rooms of the society in Dane Hall. The play, "Le Misanthrope et L'Auvergnat," is a vaudeville in one act by Eugene Labiche. It has been brought out in Paris lately and was enthusiastically received. The gentlemen who take part have worked faithfully and have taken great pains to make the affair a success. They have received great assistance from Professor Cohn and Mr. Sanderson. The unfortunate accident which the former recently met with deprived the actors of his services at an early day, and his loss...
...Mermaid; or, the Curse of Cape Cod," a nautical comic operetta, by two Boston gentlemen, will be played at the Hollis Street Theatre on Friday afternoon, April 27, for the benefit of the Marine Biological Laboratory...
...more fortunate fellows. In this connection, he finds fault with the method of awarding prizes because he says it is made purely on the basis of scholarship. In this, he is only partially right. Scholarship is of course the basis of awarding aid; what else could be? But the gentlemen who have the distribution of scholarships in charge, have the privilege of using their discretion as to whether high standing shall be the only thing considered. In many cases aid is given to a student who is judged to need the scholarship most, although his standing in his class...
...needy student. During my senior year my health was broken, through spending my spare time as a private tutor or as clerk in the library at fifteen cents an hour, and also through lack of food which could not always be procured. Several of my classmates were living as gentlemen on scholarships which they did not need. Some were drawing two of these benefices at a time. The future, however, proved to me that I was much more fortunate than my fellows, who had become permanently disabled in their zeal for prizes and scholarships. Bodily exhaustion had prevented me from...