Word: proper
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with sufficient emphasis say that when you get through college you will do badly unless you turn your attention to the serious work of life with a devotion which will render it impossible for you to pay much heed to sport in the way in which it is perfectly proper for you to pay heed while in college. Play while you play and work while you work; and though play is a mighty good thing, remember that you had better never play at all than to get into a condition of mind where you regard play as the serious business...
...shall go with hundreds of companions to see some one else play well, and it is not healthy for either students or athletes if the teams are mutually exclusive. But even having this aim especially in view it seems to me we can best attain it by giving proper encouragement to the champions in the sports, and this can only be done by encouraging intercollegiate sport. As I emphatically disbelieve in seeing Harvard or any other college turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men, I may add that I do not in the least object to a sport because...
...will be received until 10 o'clock. In making out the applications the name of each applicant should be signed by himself and not by some other members of the group for him. If any have handed in applications in which this been the case they should make the proper correction at the Bursar's office between 9 and 10 o'clock this morning...
Although it is the popular opinion that Arabia is largely a desert, there is on the contrary a large amount of arable land, which can be successfully developed if the Arabians are given proper opportunities. They have always been sailors and ship-builders, and in this age of commerce their experience should give them success in this field...
...considered as an enlargement of the "City," and the "Commonwealth" as an enlargement of the "State." How far the powers of each of these three divisions shall go is a very difficult question, but it must be admitted that a great degree of centralization is necessary to the proper control of this great "Commonwealth...