Word: proper
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Another evil attends the practice, now become so common, of intercollegiate matches. As these contests approach, there is more or less distraction of the minds of the students from their proper pursuits, and for the time being a more or less serious neglect of study. This is an evil inevitable while the present system is maintained, and is of sufficient magnitude to justify, in the opinion of the undersigned, an absolute prohibition of intercollegiate games altogether...
Yale, in giving the number of men in her freshman class, includes members of '92 in the Sheffield Scientific School. Counting the number of students in the college proper, the number in the entering class will be reduced by about one fourth...
...unwholly unfit or badly prepared that while they increase the miseries of mankind they add to the business and profits of those who are capable. The competitions of modern life have become so keen that there are no opportunities for the lame and lazy. The first must find their proper pursuits, and the second must work or go to the wall...
...Athletic Supplement" of the June Monthly, Mr. W. K. Richardson has an interesting article on "English Athletics." Mr. Moorfield Storey and Mr. G. W. Green, '76, also have candid words to say in regard to the proper place of athletics at college. The position of the overseers is sharply attacked by the latter writer...
...subject that has never been carefully and fully investigated before-the real position of athletics in college life. Exaggerated ideas of the great amount of time spent by athletes in training, and of the consequent loss of time that ought to have been devoted to college work proper, etc.- will be confirmed or disproved by the result of this report. The committee has spared no pains to make their investigation absolutely complete, and their efforts have been remarkably successful. They have obtained a frank statement from nearly every undergraduate in college, of the amount of time he devotes to athletics...