Word: properly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshman crew will take supper at the quarters as soon as proper arrangements can be made by Manager Sill. The Rowing Committee expects to give them rooms on the ground floor of Macy Villa in about three weeks...
Will you allow me space in your columns in which to call the attention of the proper authorities to what seems to me a much-needed precaution against fire. This precaution, small in itself, and involving little labor or expense, might possibly be the means of saving one of our College buildings. In all the dormitories large notices are placed describing at length where the fire apparatus is stored, and at the very end of a confusing list of ladders, axes, etc., there is a notice telling where the fire boxes are and where the keys may be found...
...abused must not be used. But the principle if carried out would work vast mischief. There is no virtue which may not be made a vice. Shall everything capable of abuse be given up, or shall we not perform a greater service for the world by going forward under proper rules and regulations? We may grant that limbs are broken and lives lost; but we must remember that there is no form of life's activity which is not attended with risk. We close our eyes to all danger to limb and life when questions of business are concerned...
...uninteresting chapel service is made still worse by the wrong spirit in which the students attend. They seem too often to remember that they are present only because forced to be, and to forget the nature of the ceremonies in which they take part. Their behavior consequently loses its proper devotional character, and the entire service shows a harmful want of sincerity and earnestness. The students who gather each morning in Appleton Chapel, on the contrary, are there for a purpose of their own and not from any disagreeable necessity. They come because they wish to take part...
...sincere devotion to the welfare of the University. It is, however our belief, as it has been, that the action of the Faculty is mistaken and ill-timed, and that with the present widespread disposition to reform intercollegiate. football, the game could actually be brought back to its proper standing as a gentlemanly sport. As long as there was any chance that the Faculty would allow the attempt to be made, we urged its desirability, as did many of the Faculty themselves. But the decisive action which is now assured, essentially changes the situation. The University is confronted with...