Word: proper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...free-will and the unavoidable force of circumstances. He continues with an exhortation to avoid extremes and then expresses his supreme confidence in Yale. He says the Yale student of to-day should be "just what the Yale student of the pasthas been." It is of course, just and proper for the heads of institutions to believe in his work. But to deny the necessity of improvement is unworthy of an educated man, much more of the president of a university. The great man of to-day must believe in great possibilities not in either a perfect or an incurable...
...Clinton Scollard" which, being somewhat involved, holds its own in college poetry. The next article, "A Fellow Traveller," is the first of a number of short anecdotes. It has the recommendation of being interesting, but one feels a strong desire to assist the author on the matter of proper names and to suggest that there is something disagreeable to the reader at finding the hero in a town, beginning with an F and followed by a dash. Yet the anecdote is otherwise well told. "Phoebe Southerly" follows; being an account of the conversation of a skull, suspended from the ceiling...
...shape of the heads, thus leading us to infer that the art is not Semitic. The basreliefs, particularly the bronze cylinders representing battle scenes and religious worship are numerous, and of great interest. The Assyrian archaeology must be distinguished from the Babylonian, though they are often confused. The Assyrian proper is of much later date, and deals with more secular subjects. A long series of bas reliefs representing a battle of the Assyrians against the Elamites is especially noteworthy. The attention paid to details by the Assyrians is their characteristic in works...
...will be begun in the spring and rapidly pushed to completion. The larger part of the money is already subscribed and the Doctor has signified his intention of resting not a whit until the remainder of the amount is assured. The school already has four professors, two in Art proper, one in free-hand drawing and one in Archaeology. It is al ready rich in collections, possessing the "Sheldon Jackson collection of North American antiquities," the "Van Sennep collection of Greek terra cotta heads," the Maimon collection of Assyrian gems. Many examples of Mexican and Peruvian pottery and other collections...
...found are not always "surreptitiously taken by a member of - ," as the communication of yesterday in regard to the binder showed. The communication to-day speaks of their being left on the tables in the reading room. While we certainly condemn this habit of not returning them to their proper places after using them, on the other hand we think that those who fail to find books at the first touch, should show a little mercy in looking for them before rushing into print with complaints and unjust accusations...