Word: properly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there will be another quest of the Holy Grail, as the feeling has been expressed that in a contest on paper, there should be "no cups;" but when defeat has lost its sting and success presents no victory, even the wisest may well be in doubt as to the proper course to pursue. While then we accept with great pride and with a full appreciation of the additional honor which it confers, another championship, we still retain a thorough conviction of our own unworthiness...
...proper consideration of these facts will surely bring peace to many a man haunted with doubts of his own capacity. He ought to see immediately that his poor spelling and pronunciation are due to the persistence of a logical and methodical mind, which has held out against the destructive effects of English. In conclusion, let us return thanks to these essayists who so often come to our aid, and strengthen our faith in humanity, even at the expense of cherished traditions...
...hardly seems in keeping with the rest of the symphony. The fifth symphony of Beethoven presents a much better example of a consistent whole, resting on a psychological. In it the name scherzo, is omitted from the third movement, which is essentially tragic in character and thus sustains a proper relation to the other movements. In the Eroica the scherzo certainly affords needed relaxation, after the gloom of the funeral march, yet one would wish that the descent were not quite so rapid, and surely the title of scherzo is decidedly out of place in such a connection. The last...
...prove inefficient, it assumes an enlarged significance when applied to a collegiate education. Many college courses have no end in view beyond charging the mind of the student with a mass of facts more or less interesting and useful, but undeniably lacking in the element of brain culture. The proper building of a brain is still a subject of discussion. But that the system of education in vogue among the colleges throughout the land is highly defective, is proved by the success of the reforms inaugurated by Harvard, which declare as their basis the determination of the student to acquire...
...please the thought as well as the taste of the reader. But setting them aside and taking up the "Harvard Monthly" we are inclined to think that the name "literary" would be far more applicable to it than to any of its contemporaries. But strange to say, the apparently proper order of things is exactly reversed, and while all the other publications are called "literary," the Harvard publication is not so called. Of course names are of little importance. Still, that the chief aim of our Harvard magazine thus far has been to be literary can hardly be disputed...