Word: properly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...introduced by which there is no mid-year examination, two hour examinations being substituted in its place. The time of these examinations has been so arranged that they come at equal intervals before the mid-years and between the mid-years and finals. This affords sufficient opportunity for the proper preparation of the subject without a conflict with the arduous work of the mid-years or finals. The plan can hardly be too highly praised, and will result almost inevitably in provoking a higher standard of work...
...submitted a report to the faculty recommending that the penalty for cribbing be expulsion from the college instead of suspension." What the Conference Committee has done is this. Its members have recommended that the regulation regarding cribbing in the published rules, which prescribes suspension or other penalty judged proper by the faculty for cribbing, be stricken out, and that hereafter the penalty of separation from college be unwritten, but firmly understood. That is, cribbing would be taken from college offences, and placed where it belongs, beside stealing and such other offences, as require no statute to condemn them. Perhaps this...
When Dr. Hale attempts to "put the same thing historically," he seems to forget that what was right and proper two centuries ago may be both wrong and improper to-day. Public sentiment and college sentiment once sanctioned a compulsory service; but compulsion then did not mean what compulsion means now. To-day there is no general sentiment either within or without the college which justifies a compulsory attendance at chapel. Religion has become utterly disassociated from any idea of compulsion. Prayer is held to be a matter between a man and his God, not between...
...unconquerable power. All people are aroused when cholera or small-pox is prevalent, and yet they take but few precautions against the greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep out of doors all the time. We ought to make ourselves stronger, that our children may be started in life with better health and stronger bodies...
After another hour's interesting and progressive discussion on the proper method of treating cases of cribbing, the Conference adjourned for one week...