Word: properly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...extended course by the same distinguished critic and scholar. Or again, Mathew Arnold, when he makes his proposed second visit to America, could be secured to give a course of lectures in the same field before the university. Such lectures would be strictly academic, and would be in the proper line of university work...
...next turned into the kitchen proper. Here we saw the immense brick ovens where all the meats are roasted. One was forcibly reminded of the old fashioned ovens of our grandfathers, which produced such an impression upon our childish fancies. A bakery of no mean proportions is a necessary adjunct. It requires no less than two barrels of flour every day to satisfy our desires for the "staff of life." The huge range, upon which all steaks are broiled, and all orders cooked; the vegetable kettles of enormous capacity, and many other immense contrivances did escape our attention...
...sides of the blocks giving friction enough to make the stroke about as hard as when rowing in water, but when the oar is turned as in feathering, the bar slides freely in the grooves of the blocks. The block is hung on pivots so as to give the proper verticle component of the motion...
...that they would not play. And upon this the captain of the team at the last moment-Thursday night-telegraphed to Harvard that there would be no game. Now in every one of these steps the Freshmen were wholly in the wrong, and by no means up to the proper standard of fair dealing. It was an utterly inexcusable act on the part of the three men in question to refuse to play, because the time did not suit them; especially when by so doing they weakened the team very seriously. It was an error of judgment on the part...
...believe that foot ball, played in the proper spirit, under proper conditions, may be made one of the most valuable of college sports, and we should deprecate its permanent loss...