Word: properity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pernicious effect on the teams, on the colleges, and on the sport. College athletics have become infected with professionalism, and there is no prospect of improvement under the present League. The spirit of recent conventions has been that of casting formal difficulties in the way of a proper agreement between gentlemen. We are convinced that the League in its present form is an obstacle to genuine sport...
...deemed to be the proper function of the library to furnish books for such protracted...
Themes are to be deposited in the wooden box outside the door of Gray's 18 not later thau 4 o'clock. By the regulations no overdue theme will be accepted unless the writer satisfies the Secretary that his failure to present it at the proper time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance...
...These contests and their results attract a class of fellows to college that have no proper place there. The consequences are that a bad tone, morally and intellectually, is given to the college, interest in scholarly pursuits is decreased, degrees are given to many without the slightest real claim. Instead of an atmosphere of scholarship, the tendency is towards an atmosphere of professional training. The professors find little responsiveness in their class rooms, become disgusted, and do not give out the best that is in them...
...true, however, that a Glee club trip is in any proper sense of the word an advertisement. Last year the benefit accrued, and was intended to accrue to the graduates rather than to the college or the members of the Glee club. Those to whom the treat was rarest were Harvard graduates who found it both pleasant and profitable to renew their associations with their Alma Mater, if but for a single evening. They are thereby entitled to recognition, if the Glee club are not; and it is as much on their account as on the account of the Glee...