Word: proper
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...said the comparatively small per cent. of the young men of the country who have the advantage of a college education should go out among the people whose language they have learned and by gaining an insight into their life render themselves capable of making them understand the proper course to pursue as citizens of the United States. He also recommended that our young men be educated in the use of Spanish so that we may be better able to maintain the Monroe Doctrine through the better control of business in South America and our insular possessions...
...extent than the average of the community,--and therefore it is important for them to think clearly upon these subjects. For good or for evil our social system is based upon the private ownership of property; but property involves duties as well as privileges, and it is on the proper discharge of these that the ownership is morally if not practically conditioned. The first duty of the owner of property is to manage it himself so far as he can. So far as he cannot it is his duty to see that it is managed as he ought to manage...
When the 1911 Photograph Committee requested Dean Wells to comment on the result of their work they felt with proper justification, as was admitted by all Harvard men, that their album was more than the ordinary annual improvement over its predecessors, and that it would not be easily surpassed in excellence. Happily, however, Mr. Blackall, chairman of the 1912 committee, et al., have appreciated their commission and have not missed the opportunity to be ranked as the most efficient and successful editors in twenty-three years...
...whom they know to be about to go to Buffalo from their institutions. Nothing could be more agreeable to the young graduate than to be at once admitted to the friendship of the older graduates of all colleges; and nothing can do more to establish college graduates in a proper place in the eyes of the community than to have them, old and young, co-operate to assist one another and in so doing, as the Buffalo plan intends, give some of their time and training to helping the city solve its civic and social problems...
...affords an opportunity for relaxation from the strain of the examinations, of which many instructors urge their pupils to avail themselves. As usual, exercises will be held in Memorial Hall. For those who remain in Cambridge over the holiday, here is an excellent opportunity to join in the proper observance of the day which honors our American heroes, of whom so many are Harvard...