Word: properly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fires take place in the college precincts, but their absence ought not to cause carelessness on the part of the students. Every room is more or less exposed to danger from the chance dropping of a lighted match, and every student should keep in mind the comparative lack of proper means for extinguishing a fire even though it might be very slight. The Harvard fire department, which many years ago effectually extinguished itself in attempting to extinguish an unpopular instructor, is a thing of the past, and will probably not be revived. Let each student, therefore, exert great care...
...concert of the Glee club and Pierian takes place this evening in Sanders. We are glad to know that the sale of tickets has been so large and can regard the large sale only as a proper recognition of the reputation and ability of Harvard's musicians. That the concert will be an enjoyable as well as a successful one we do not doubt. These winter concerts of the Glee club and Pierian have always been pleasant features of college life...
...daily prayers. The general religious standing of the college is raised by these meetings attended voluntarily from sincere Christian motives, but the compulsory attendance at daily prayers affects this religious standing adversely if at all. With profound respect for religion, we earnestly call for a recognition of its proper sphere, and an observance of it, which is based on sincerity and not on half-hearted indifference, or positive mockery...
...will put in a disclaimer. I am no Anglophobiac in this matter. English ways and manners are right and proper among English men. They are part of the English system and dove-tail in with existing institutions. I only protest against their importation here where they are foreign to the climate, distasteful to the inhabitants, and ridiculous in the propagators...
...Yale Literary Monthly talks about that ever recurring theme, "What Next?" in the following pleasing manner. "Most of us, in looking upon the future, have very ambiguous notions as regards the condition of things which we shall find in the world proper. One or two vague notions we have. We have heard in a general way rather indefinite opinions expressed. These opinions come to us largely from men of experience. The professions are over-crowded. There is plenty of room for genius, but little room for mediocre ability. The days are past when the mere fact of possessing a college...