Word: properity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class ought to give good support to their nine when it goes to New Haven. Many men who will be through or almost through their examinations can give their time, and others can spare a day for the trip. The nine has won the first game against Yale. With proper support there ought to be no question of the second. Judged by the number of university players on the team, no class for years has had so good a prospect of winning. The team has won the class championship, and ought to have the confidence of the class...
...Trustees of Columbia have referred to the President and the University Council the action that had been unanimously taken by the Faculty of the School of Arts, the college proper, with reference to throwing open as electives to the seniors in the School of Arts, courses in the various schools of Law, Mines, Political Science and Philosophy that may be designated as open to them by the different university faculties having these schools in charge. As the university Council is known to be in favor of this action, only questions of detail remain to be decided...
...state that his object in wording the motion as it was put was that the students should not be committed to employing detectives. That part of the business was expressly left to the discretion of the committee. This committee had decided that in their judgment this was not the proper thing to do, and feeling that in their refusal to hire detectives they might not be supported by public opinion they had decided to call a second mass-meeting. Mr. Garrison then moved that the same gentlemen be elected a committee to receive subscriptions to pay for the property destroyed...
Granting, as you have suggested editorially, that the Harvard men here are biased by their wish to have the football game played in this city, is not the wish entirely proper and commendable? Surely the Boston men ought not to object, for under the proposed arrangement they will still have half the ball games played in their vicinity every year, and every other year the track athletics; while we at this end will lose the latter, at present the only contest in which we have a chance, without taking a day's journey, to see a Harvard team compete...
...make-up of the team have necessarily been frequent, and there can be no complaint, as far as the university nine is concerned, that every candidate has been given a fair chance. The material this year has been unusually abundant, and for that reason the task of selecting the proper players has been a more than ordinarily hard one. The nine as present constituted, however, is the strongest possible one, and it deserves a much more hearty support from the college than it has yet received. The number of spectators at each game has been limited to a very...