{"id":165,"date":"2007-09-06T13:24:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T13:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2007\/09\/06\/bambrey-talks-about-rules-gentlemans-rule\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T13:24:34","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T13:24:34","slug":"bambrey-talks-about-rules-gentlemans-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2007\/09\/06\/bambrey-talks-about-rules-gentlemans-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Bambrey Talks About Rules, Gentleman&#8217;s Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/students\/rule.cfm\">Gentleman\u2019s Rule<\/a> hasn\u2019t been around for the full 175 years of Wabash College, Dean of Students Tom Bambrey said Thursday in his Chapel Talk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/BambreyStory.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Although the rule as we now know it is approaching 55 years, it has evolved from guidelines established in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century. The wording and rule has changed wording through the 1900s, and reached its final form in 1953.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But the rule \u2013 \u201cThe Student is expected to conduct himself at all times, both on and off the campus, as a gentleman and a responsible citizen.\u201d \u2013 has had the same basic qualities throughout the college\u2019s 175-year history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Bambrey told the students the rule is a heavy burden to bear, \u201cto try to live up to the rule. The expectation of being able to balance freedom and responsibility while asking and assessing what it means to behave as a gentleman is a difficult, precarious, almost impossible challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThat challenge is for a student, through his four years here, to look at and assess first his own actions and second the actions of other students. The challenge is to hold out a gentlemanly standard and try one\u2019s best to live up to that standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hear the full podcast of Bambrey\u2019s Sept. 6 Chapel Talk by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/caleb.wabash.edu\/podcast\/Bambrey_9_6_07.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Next week Professor of Religion David Blix will give the first of a series of Chapel Talks noting the College&#8217;s 175th year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gentleman\u2019s Rule hasn\u2019t been around for the full 175 years of Wabash College, Dean of Students Tom Bambrey said Thursday in his Chapel Talk. Although the rule as we now know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}