Word: proper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...delay should be so much greater this year than in the past. Every one looks forward with especial interest to the appearance of the examination list, as all are naturally anxious to learn in what order the examinations are to be held. We hope that the attention of the proper authorities will be given to the matter and that the delay will be made as short as possible...
...emulated by stronger elevens. Next season New England will have the present strong inter collegiate eleven, besides the Tufts Williams League, and one in which Technology. Trinity and other elevens will figure. Dartmouth and Brown are both anxious to be admitted to the fold of some association. With proper legislation next year and the proper attempt to profit by the weak points of the past season, the game in 1887 will be the most prosperous on record. - New York Clipper...
...meeting of the Board of Trustees of Columbia College on Monday afternoon, it was decided that April 13th, 1887, should be set apart as a day for observing the centennial of the college by proper ceremonies. A committee of five, consisting of President Barnard, Hon. Hamilton Fish, Rev. Dr Morgan Dix. Joseph W. Harper, Jr., and Seth Low, was appointed to make all arrangements necessary for the commemoration, to determine on the order of religious and literary exercises, to issue invitations to sister institutions to send delegates for the occasion, and to invite the friends of the college...
...faucets and pipes. Everybody knows what a delight it is to linger shivering and half-frozen, waiting for a drop or two of warm water, and finally in despair to dash under the ice-cold stream in place of something more agreeable. And everybody knows that it is the proper thing to complain of the gymnasium officials. But everybody does not know that in the present condition of affairs it is impossible to supply an adequate amount of heated water during the crowded hours of exercise from four to six o'clock in the afternoon. The boilers...
...every three were bad, absolutely bad. Is it not absurd that the famous dining hall of the largest and most respected university in America should offer to its seven hundred boarders potatoes, of which two out of every three are bad? In sober earnest, we think the proper authorities should look into the matter at once, if for no other reason than personal pride, and endeavor to furnish reasonably edible potatoes. They should know, if they do not already, that so long as the waiting list is as large as it is at present, just so long will there...