Word: properly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...novelty of the entertainment would no doubt suffice to fill the gallery for months to come, but popular interest might eventually decline unless proper stimulants were offered. To meet this difficulty I should propose the following plan...
When not the proper season...
...having them in the right position. To secure this, extend the hand, palm upward, and turn over the wrist only, leaving the fore-arm nearly horizontal. Coaches should insist on having the men swing their elbows close to their sides, and well past them; as this encourages a proper position of the arm. If a man does not "get the hands away" immediately, but "buckets forward" with the body, the hands are caught between the body and knees in an awkward position; some force is required to get them forward, and he has no time to begin the stroke properly...
With the abandonment of the usage here, a long step would be taken towards securing its abolition elsewhere; and it seems eminently proper that the College which has taken the lead in widening the range and elevating the spirit of College instruction, in recognition of the increased maturity of its students, should also be foremost n discarding and discountenancing a tradition which could have sprung up only when students were mere boys, not yet come to that sense of personal dignity which shrinks alike from inflicting and from accepting a wound to self-respect...
...race was not exciting. At the proper time Wilcox quickened his stroke and came in an easy winner, having made the two miles in 14 m. 8 3/4 s., Devens about two lengths behind him, with Phillips eight lengths to his rear...