Word: properly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...during the winter months that the student is most likely to neglect proper exercise, while in the spring and summer the inducements to out-of-door sport are many and strong. The prospect of inter-collegiate games in the spring fills the college gymnasium during the winter. When warm weather comes the crews and nines, selected from many candidates, take to the water or go on the diamond. But this occurs only after long months of excellent daily exercise by hundreds of college students continued through the very season when exercise is most irksome. Remove the inter-collegiate game...
...with this in view, President Porter points to the future of Columbia should she found an advanced school, for which President Barnard has already asked $4,000,000. "The great obstacle in the way of a university, in its truest sense," he continues, "in America, is the need of proper preliminary instruction. We may have all the departments, but, when entrance to these departments can be made from a mere high school education, we have not a university; to obviate this, two paths are open, either to improve and enlarge the two or three leading colleges and greatly increase their...
...call attention to these facts not so much in defense of the present system as to induce a more careful discussion of the subject. The Tennis Association will, we believe, be willing to move if, after a more considerate discussion of the question through the college papers, it seems proper that any decisive steps should be taken...
...understand that several departments of the university have endeavored to bring about the substitution of theses for forensics in the case of men who are not candidates for honors, but their efforts have not as yet met with success owing to the fear that the study of English proper might suffer. This fear, however, seems to us ungrounded, when we consider how much greater care is generally given to the preparation of theses than of forensics. Another reason for confining this privilege to candidates for honors may be that it is meant as an additional inducement to students...
...England, recognize the fact. The standard here, though not perhaps so greatly in advance of Yale and Princeton, is about a year beyond the usual curriculum of preparatory schools outside of the Eastern States, and it is consequently very difficult for those living in other States to get a proper fitting for admittance to Harvard. It is therefore a matter of decided congratulation when a school to be preparatory for Harvard is established outside the classic ground of New England, as we are informed has been done recently in the city of Wilkesbarre in Pennsylvania. An academy has there just...