Word: properity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CRIMSON also says that the disturbances have been "boisterous action very generally participated in." Conduct may be boisterous and still proper. We should remember that we are neither old gray-beards or a body of college professors, that it is untrue to our natures as young gentlemen - boys if you please - to sit perfectly straight and rigid, perfectly composed and dignified when visitors are present in the gallery. If we sat in our places like frozen mummies we should be as Doroty Lundt expressed in the Transcript last April: "Harvard boys? Not a bit of it! Young gentlemen from...
...know would like to see the gallery closed for all time, disturbance or no disturbance. We believe, however, that this is taking an extreme view of the case. Provided there be no misconduct on the part of either visitors or students, we believe that it is quite proper that visitors be admitted. But there has been a tendency among members of the association for the past few years to seize upon any opportunity to create a disturbance. Practically the only means of preventing such occurrences as the directors complain of, aside from that which has been adopted, would have been...
...Because a game is rough and has not as yet been regulated in a proper measure, are we as Americans going to throw over the entire sport? Are we going to confess that we are unable to take advantage of its strong, healthy points, and simply say it is too rough a game for boys to play? * * * Let us rather make a point of seeing that they learn to play fairly; that they learn to govern their brute instincts, that only those who are able to do this are permitted to indulge in rough play...
...view of this last occurence we believe it a proper time to point out to the members of the freshman class what has been the policy of the Faculty with regard to such affairs. It would be no difficult matter, - much easier than many students imagine, - to discover who are the offenders and to cut them off at once from any further connection with the University. But the adoption of such measures it is believed would be a check on the development and strengthening of character, and for this reason they have not been resorted to except in extreme cases...
...says that the honor of the faculty committee is concerned in the charges brought, as the connection between them and the Pennsylvania athletics is close, and he invites the Yale association or any person to whom Yale chooses to give the proper credentials, to inspect the books of the University of Pennsylvania faculty and to see if the charges of professionalism are substantiated therefrom. He offers to give any Yale committee all the assistance possible in ferreting out ineligible students...