Word: manner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Seniors will soon have to decide upon the manner in which they shall celebrate their Class Day, a few suggestions on this point are not out of place. I wish to urge upon them a return to old customs and a repetition of the Class Day of seventy-six : I say seventy-six advisedly, for the one alteration in the ceremonies that was made by that class seems to me to have been a wise one. We must admit, however much we may dislike the prevalent cant about dignity, that the old rushes between the Sophomores and the Freshmen added...
...ever again see what has delighted Harvard students and their friends for generations. The only Class Day that seventy-nine has seen took place in their Freshman year. Is it to be supposed that they will exert themselves to restore ceremonies which, provided they were treated in the canonical manner, they can only connect with a severe course of snubbing? With the present Senior class lies the power of killing or perpetuating Class Day, and may wisdom guide them in their action...
...previous injudicious idling, but the majority are chiefly occupied with superintending the movements of the "blameless Ethiopian" moving furniture from last year's room. There has been, of course, the usual amount of hand-shaking among faultlessly dressed young fellows, the usual inquiries and responses as to the manner of spending the summer vacation. Once more, as usual, the gawky Freshman and the self-important Senior are seen in our midst. There are probably, as there always have been, and will be, the usual number who come back with the purpose to stand high, work hard...
...introduced into the public schools the teaching of etiquette. When a stranger enters the school-room, the scholars - no matter how much their attention has been previously engrossed in erecting pins on their neighbors, chairs and in surreptitiously eating molasses candy - all rise together, and, with much grace of manner, wish him "a good morning." When the gentleman leaves, the same performance is gone through with. If he meets a small boy in the street, the small boy gracefully touches his cap. The people who have been most intimately connected with this reform movement have naturally felt some delicacy...
...duties of the Judges shall be, to be present at the regular Field Meeting of the Association, and to assign to the contestants their positions, at the end of the respective events. The manner in which they shall carry out this duty shall be settled by the Committee on Athletic Sports...