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Word: properly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sunday Herald decides that Oscar Wilde is a proper subject for ridicule, and that we have a right to say what we please. His peculiarities are not necessary adjuncts to his cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/7/1882 | See Source »

...much in the quantity of work as in the regularity and systematic way in which it is performed. Many high authorities concur in the opinion that an almost unlimited amount of mental work may be done by the brain provided it is performed at regular hours, and proper care is taken of the body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/24/1882 | See Source »

...EDITORS OF THE HERALD: Your editorial this morning about the freshman class is, perhaps, a very proper one, and if it came from an upper-class man, a very natural one, as well, since there is a strong tendency in men, when they have once passed the boundary, to forget that they ever were freshmen. The class of '85, it seems, is remarkable in more than one respect. Its scholarship is said to be above the average; its dignity appears to be likewise high, and its support of athletics is below the average. Doubtless the first trait is an estimable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 1/20/1882 | See Source »

That the board of trustees are clothed with the power to make all rules, by-laws, and regulations required or proper to conduct or manage Purdue University; if the board have the power, it is presumed that the faculty are acting by their authority; in addition to the powers exercised by the faculty under the authority of the board, they (the faculty) have certain inherent and necessary powers as teachers. They stand in many respects in loco parentis; the making of the rule in question, forbidding a student to hold active connection with a secret Greek college fraternity is within...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS VS. FACULTY. | 1/20/1882 | See Source »

...hoped that there is some way of putting a stop to this annoying practice. It certainly is not so very difficult for men to put the books back in their proper places when they have used them. I speak from experience. A few days ago, after a half hour's search, I found a book from the Greek alcove reposing on the shelf of the History alcove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/18/1882 | See Source »

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