Word: manner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these busy men who have no time for lectures and recitations? It is nothing less than thieving. The man who thus runs away from the class room, steals time from the class room, steals time from the instructor. Moreover, his exit from the class room is after the manner of the escape of a thief from prison. His motions are hurried, he always waits till the instructor's face is turned away and then he bolts as any thief would do. His face has stamped upon it that expression of conscious guilt, that evasive, sneaking, look, which is perfectly unmistakable...
...need not discuss his virtues. No one who ever saw him could fail to see in his kindly face and cordial manner and in the fairness and justice of all his dealings with men, the strength and warmth, the purity and sincerity of the highest type of manhood. By this death the students lose a kind friend and helper; the University, a devoted servant; the city, a faithful citizen; the world, a true man; and to all these the loss is irreparable...
...home in Wakefield, at the age of twenty-four. He had been ill since March with tuberculosis, but took his degree with his class. Living at home during his entire college course he was not widely known in the class, but his friends will remember his quiet, earnest manner...
...work of every man on the eleven deserves praise, not so much for what he did on his own account as for the manner in which he fitted into the team play. Newell played as only a man can who plays on the Harvard 'varsity for the last time after four years experience. Brewer's work was simply phenomenal, especially when it is considered in what a condition he was during the second half...
...with Princeton prevented Harvard from accepting it until the last of April. The important provisions of the final agreement concerning the composition of the teams, settle the disputed questions as to amateurs, bona fide students, the time limit, and the announcement of names of players, in the most satisfactory manner possible; and it is interesting to notice that the rules on the same subjects which Yale recently allowed to be submitted to the Intercollegiate Association were essentially the same as those agreed to by Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania...