But a threat was to loom to the dominant values of gentlemanly geology.
By the turn of the twentieth century the public schools had developed a unifying ethos which gloried in the gentlemanly pursuits.
They show us a system that was burdensome for the participants, made more acceptable since it was an extension of gentlemanly civility.
Members too, are expected to follow gentlemanly codes of conduct.
While drinking and gorging make him gentlemanly, it seems, they also break him down.
In contrast, drawings could be made in the gentlemanly space of the study.
To question such reports would be tantamount to questioning the gentlemanly status of their authors.
The very frivolity of such practices is important: their unproductive nature is, in fact, exactly what is gentlemanly about them.
