Word: properly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Junior year appears to be most suitable; for by that time the greater portion of the studies are elective, especially if required Philosophy has been anticipated the year previous. The variety of choice renders it comparatively easy by a proper selection to pass examination on return...
...number of these could be lessened if, as is not now the case, they could be brought up from childhood to the proper use of wine or ale. Once accustomed to drink in their homes and at the table, looking upon these drinks as a part of their dinner, they would early in life contract the habit of their regular and moderate use. In those districts of France where meat is a rarity, on feast days the tables overflow with it. Course after course of it is brought on, and the guests eat to satiety...
This set of men has by no means passed out of college; but they are facile men, and feign the sentiment they cannot feel, if but the majority consider it the proper thing. As a set they have lost the position they once held. Then they were in their glory, when demerit marks took away all hope of ranking well from all but the most punctilious; when all studies were required studies, - under the old regime, in short, when nobody was ever mad enough even to dream of voluntary recitations. The position they once had, and the influence they appeared...
...faults; they are already well known. Would that it had as many, or even any, merits which might be told! It must be remembered that the proposed Commons is to be in a room much more elegant than any in which students now take their meals, and where, by proper management, all, without being crowded, could obtain good board at a reasonable price; for, strange as it may seem, there are some every year who wish to be admitted to our present Commons, and are kept out for want of room...
...England was Hildebrand. England stood in the way of his cherished plan of bringing the German Empire into subjection to the Church. Her Archbishop of Canterbury even accepted his pall from the anti-pope favored by the Emperor. Therefore Hildebrand deliberately planned the conquest of the island. At the proper time he both protected his Norman tools in front, by excommunicating Harold, and guarded their rear by satisfactory assurances that the French should not aggress upon their native territory. His gain was to be twofold; the favor conferred would bind the powerful Normans more closely to the Church, and another...