Word: properly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...failure to hand in a list at the proper time, or any proposal of inadmissible topics, may seriously interfere with the success of the student in question. Owing to the shortness of the time, and the number of persons concerned, the instructors cannot undertake to correct any mistakes as to these matters. Especial care should therefore be taken to conform to the foregoing rules...
...long been a wonder how some comparatively weak men can out-row many stronger. The explanation lies largely in the fact that the one distributes his strength over the stroke in the most telling way. This economical stroke would have a corresponding curve, and if we all knew the proper curve to row, we might all be "skillful" oarsmen. * * * It affords a means of preserving a given type, for like the phonograph, its impressions can be preserved for use in the distant future...
...Cook being in town yesterday tried the apparatus himself, though, he says the results must not be taken as his stroke for he was not in proper condition to show his real curves. He recommends the machine as a useful aid in coaching. Nevertheless, the University crew has not yet decided to employ it. - Yale News...
...statement by Treasurer Morgan showed that our treasury had been badly depleted by the Oxford race expenses, and that it would be very hard work raising the funds necessary to defray the expenses of a trans-Atlantic trip. Therefore, before any propositions were made to Harvard, it was thought proper to ascertain the cost of the trip...
...Well, we would have to attend the Harvard regattas, which are in the last week in June and first part of July. So it would take us until September to get ready to go to the other side, and get into proper condition for the race...