Word: properly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening, Miss Ashely gave a very enjoyable social to the class of '88. The juveniles are reported to have danced and even played cards. Of course, the chaperons kept the youthful flow of spirits within proper bounds. One anxious mother sent the family dog with her son for protection. One of the freshmen picked up sufficient courage to accompany a young lady to the social, but when it came time to go home he excused himself on account of the storm. -[Chronicle...
...speak of sub-freshman in the sophomore class may doubtless seem to many an awful anomaly, but still even then the phrase must contain an idea, and that idea lies at a greater depth than the mere names themselves. Sub-freshmen don't properly belong in college, but sub-freshmen in the sophomore class! What does it mean? A freshmen proper is expected at the beginning of the year to appear a little verdant, as they say; indeed he is not to be blamed for it. But when the freshman has become a sophomore he is supposed to have...
...land and began the erection of the buildings in 1879. Dying in 1880, he left an endowment of $800,000 for the continuance of the work he had begun." The buildings now in course of construction and to be completed, ready for use in June next, comprise the college proper, 130 feet long and three stories high, with rooms for chemical, biographical and botanical laboratories. an assembly room, a library an reading room, and recitation rooms...
This is only in the college proper. If we take the University, the cosmopolitanism of Harvard would be still more clearly shown. As would be expected, Mass. sends by far the largest number. The eight states which send the largest numbers are, Mass. 543, N. Y. 149, Penn. 40, Ill. 30, Ohio...
...this table, only Freshmen proper are numbered, as it would be difficult to group all the first year men in the college together. Hilton Block, Little's Block, Holyoke, and Beck, though not properly in the yard, relate to the same question, and are included...