Word: properly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ugly than the witches in Macbeth, showing in her own person an utter contempt for cleanliness, and secretly wondering at the foolishness of a man who cares to have his carpet swept and his table dusted? Yet how can the unfortunate goody be expected to know how to take proper care of a room? Possibly in her early years she was in service with some respectable housekeeper, but all visions of that time have grown dim through the long vista of years during which she lived with Pat or Mike, and a brood of children, in two wretched, dirty rooms...
...more exposed situation, yet not more exposed than that occupied by most of the two upper classes, recorded a temperature of 36. Under such circumstances as these, we should like to ask those of our government who support prayers, what object there is in compelling attendance. The proper authorities have expressed their conviction, based on experiment, that prayers are not necessary for the discipline of the college; the other grounds for maintaining them are religious. How much devotion is conceivable in students sitting in a chapel where the temperature is 36, and where continual draughts of much colder...
...moved that it be left to the option of the colleges to row with or without coxswains, and supported his motion on what seems to us the specious ground that, because it was claimed by some that as good time could be made with coxswains as without, it was proper to allow those who thought they could make better time without coxswains to do so. All boats, we think, should be on the same footing, and the considerations in favor of coxswains are many besides that of time, which, in fact, is of small consequence any way in an amateur...
...rare that any of the rumors which are floating about are free from exaggeration or error, yet when they are our only source of information, we have to accept them; and when we hear a report of some decision so mutilated as to seem arbitrary, and out of the proper sphere of a college government, a very bitter feeling is produced, old troubles are raked up, and new stories get into circulation, so that often a very small fire kindles a great deal of matter...
...medium for the expression of College opinion, we also regard it as part of our duty to prevent any hasty and extreme utterance of such opinion before the facts of the case are fully known, feeling, as we do, that such opinions have too often lost their proper weight by ill-advised expression. Before inquiring into this particular case, we must indicate, with all due respect to the Faculty, one cause which, we conceive, has produced by far the larger number of misunderstandings between Faculty and students. The decisions of our instructors in matters which concern us most nearly...