Word: proper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...successor to Dr. Noah Porter was discussed at some length, but the principal topic of conversation was whether Yale should have an elective system similar to the one now adopted at Harvard. One of the speakers said, "I never knew a boy who went to college at the proper time, from sixteen to nineteen years of age, who knew what line of study was really best for him. Yale has recently been compared disparagingly with Harvard, but although she has not at present so many undergraduates as that institution, no one can gainsay that she exerts a greater influence...
...Side by side they have pursued their work for nearly 250 years, during which eight generations of men have come and gone, until their quarter-millennial anniversaries are just before us. The success of these time honored organizations reflects new lustre upon their founders, and calls for a proper recognition from their children. We trust this will be forthcoming, and take form in a way which shall do honor to these ancient institutions. The First Church was organized in February, 1636, with Thomas Shepard as its minister. Shepard graduated from Emmanuel College, England, in 1623, and after much persecution from...
...again to these questionable operations, first in the library, again in Memorial, and again in the gymnasium. It is due college honor at large that no false sense of friendship, or generosity, should prevent a student who knows one of these public offenders, from disclosing his name to the proper authorities...
...grown in the past, one of three things is necessary, Memorial must be enlarged, two sets of dining hours must be introduced, or a new dining association must be formed. The last plan is most feasible. If a small dining association could be formed and provided with the proper outfit, and managed so as to meet the demands of the richer students, - a standard of board being provided that would cost $6.00 or $7.00, - Memorial would be relieved of the coming overflow. When Memorial is full there is every danger of high prices in Cambridge boarding houses. When they become...
...students are also nearly all Greeks, and next to Greece, Armenia and Bulgaria are best represented. Only about 2-5 of the students come from Greece proper, the remainder hailing from all parts of the east...