Word: properly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest in the game increased, and the Cambridge city government allowed a part of the Common near the Washington Elm to be used for practice. On June 27, 1863, the first game of base ball proper was played between our '66 nine and Brown, '66, the score standing 27 to 17 in our favor. In 1864, the first of many exciting contests with the Lowells took place, the latter winning two out of four games...
...possible that no changes will be made as regards the privileges of the two upper classes; but it has been decided definitely, as we understand, to give Sophomores voluntary recitations. We believe that this is a step in the right direction, and that it is a proper successor to the many advances which Harvard has made during the past ten years. It is a matter of congratulation that the Faculty, in all essential matters, at least, are willing to do so much for the convenience and advantage of the students...
...later, and the constant changing from one course to another, are certainly injurious to the student himself, and are also a source of great annoyance at the office. As to the fact that it is impossible to obtain good marks under certain instructors, it would seem as if the proper way to avoid this difficulty would be by specifying the courses of these instructors as extras at the outset, since there need be no hesitation in so doing, if they, as the Advocate states, are confessedly unfair as regards marks. As we have before said...
THERE are 1,494 students at Columbia, - 278 in the college proper...
...privilege to all, and thus disqualifies some for speaking for the Boylston Prizes. In other words, the way in which instruction is given at Harvard produces the same effect, regard being had to the Boylston Prizes, as a close corporation. To bring up the department of elocution to the proper standard we need more instructors. If these cannot be furnished by the College, all those students who really wish to study elocution should be instructed as much as possible, and not simply those who are already good speakers...