Word: properity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saturday afternoon, 34 to 0. Exeter was weak in the centre and her backs, with the exception of Thomas, ran poorly and were aided by little or no effectual interference. The individual work of the men was fairly good but there was an utter lack of organization. With proper coaching the men ought to be able to put up an ordinarily strong game...
...Carroll then spoke upon the question of federal taxation. He said a tariff should be imposed for public purposes only. It is no modern thing for men to get their gain at the public loss. Taxation is a necessity, but without proper limitations it becomes a tyranny...
...members of the graduate department. He said that it was started twenty years ago, but for one-half of that time it had been badly hampered; that it was only within the first six years that it had been able to place graduates of other universities on a proper standing; and that only within the last three had it appeared in the catalogue as a great branch of the university...
...beer" is full of meaning. The Kodaks are rather entertaining as a whole. The first is not bad; the second, it seems to us, has not enough in it to justify its appearance in the Advocate; the third is excellent, very well worked up, though it would hardly be proper in a co-educational college; the fourth is good; the fifth is fair, but the sixth is bad and wholly untrue to Harvard life. We are not thoroughly barbarous here. Manliness and gentleness go hand in hand and shame at helping a little boy argues a childish and indecent state...
...buildings for the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania are in process of erection. One of these, the Engineering School proper, is 100x50 feet and contains a plant of 300 horse-power for lighting by electricity the buildings of the university...