Word: properity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large number of men who do declare that the so-called "'varsity blazer" should be worn by any Harvard man who cares to do so. If a man happens to be a manager of, or connected in some such way with, a 'varsity team, it is considered perfectly proper for him to appear in the regulation 'varsity blazer, while for his classmate who has not been so fortunate, it is termed "bad form" to do the same. Thus by a petty, illogical and totally inconsistent custom, undergraduates are practically compelled to wear blazers striped with their class colors...
...operative Society. I voice, however, the sentiments of a goodly number in protesting against the frequent and usually unwarranted rudeness of the management. The independent spirit of the officials is possibly pardonable, but the manner of its display is inexpressibly galling. Any complaint, far from being met in a proper spirit, seems to be regarded by the superintendent in the light of a personal affront, and the complainant is subjected too often to abuse...
Professor G. L. Goodale lectured Saturday evening before the Lowell Institute, continuing the discussion of the "Cultivation of Forests" and treating specially of the enemies of forests and proper methods of cultivating and caring for forests and trees...
...thought that none but articles which had some claim to literary merit were published in this paper, but here we find something that is entirely out of place. The high tone of the other articles is lowered by the presence of these verses, which, if they were in their proper place, might call for our approval. Perhaps the best thing in the present number is the stanza, "A Memory: to Nightfall." It is a most delicate and pure composition. We feel that it has the inspiration of true poetry. The verses "But yesterday, I thought of Spring," by the same...
...system, however, in spite of its advantages, is subject to constant abuse. Men are very careless about returning books to their proper places, and though complaints on this head are constantly appearing in the columns of the CRIMSON, they seem to have little effect. It takes more trouble to replace a book on its proper shelf than to leave it lying on the table. But it also takes more trouble to look over the ten or twelve tables in the reading room before finding a book, than to get it from the shelf where it belongs. Men forget that what...