Word: properly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very well raised. At present, in the onward sweep of athletics, the undergraduate has been deceived into thinking, or rather into acting as if he thought, that the athlete alone is deserving of the popularity which puts a man's name in every body's mouth. It is proper that the athlete should enjoy a certain measure of collegiate fame, but it is far from proper that he should hold so nearly a monopoly of it as he does today. Such prominence as is now the reward of success in athletics is harmful both to him who receives...
...alone might safely coin silver at a proper ratio: A. S. Stokes, Joint Metallism; W. C. Oates in Cong, Record XXV, App., 152-155. - (a) The proper ratio would be that which would most nearly coincide with market ratio. - (b) This ratio is ascertainable. - (c) There would be no tendency for silver to drive out gold. - (1) A silver dollar would contain a gold dollar's worth of silver. - (d) Our present silver money could be gradually recoined at new ratio; meanwhile government's fiat would maintain it at parity with gold as it does...
...Football is a beneficial form of athletics. - (a) It is acceptable to the students. - (1) Is played by a large number. - (b) It promotes bodily health. - (1) Physique. - (2) Training teaches importance of proper ventilation, food, clothing, etc. - (c) It promotes moral qualities. - (1) Self-control. - (2) Temperance. - (3) Courage...
...Intercollegiate football is injurious to the colleges. - (a) Harmful to the students. (See II and III). - (b) Affects the proper flow of pupils to the college. - (x) Many choose a college for its athletic record rather than for its real advantages. - (c) Gives preparatory pupils a false ideal of the purpose of a college, thus encouraging the development of athletic instead of intellectual ability. - (d) Represents colleges to the community as places of leisure and training schools for athletes, instead of centres of learning...
...Passing through the first great crowd of moaning wretches, and crossing the Charon, they come among the souls that are suffering penance for original sin, and no other guilt. Thence they advance into a second circle, at the entrance to which stands Minos, who assigns to the spirits their proper places in Hell. Leaving Minos they continue along a rocky cliff, past which rushes the tempest that carries along in its mad career the sinners that have subjected reason to lust. They came at length to a broad flood, where lost wretches are struggling with the waters, as the poets...