Word: properly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...temporary agitation in regard to the matter will soon expend itself without having done permanent good. It is apparently the duty of the managers of the different teams to attend to the matter, but if every senior class made some officer-the secretary for example-responsible for the proper preservation of the trophies and records of the year, the perpetuation of the custom in future would probably be fully ensured. Moreover, just at present, a committee from the different athletic organizations should set to work in order to repair the remissness of recent years. The University authorities stand ready...
Public opinion endorses Harvard's efforts to abolish brutalism of football. Let the reformers not rest until sparring bouts have been relegated to their proper place,-within the ropes of the professional prize ring...
...four years in the number of men from both St. Paul's and Andover, but a falling off in the number from Exeter. This apparently retrograde movement in regard to the representation from Exeter is owing to the great decrease in the number of students at Exeter proper, and as an actual fact the percentage of students who came this year to Harvard in proportion to the total number of students at Exeter is greater than in the previous four years...
Such then is the impression which has been made throughout the country by this effort to reduce athletics to their proper level. A more propitious state of affairs could not be desired. The college world is evidently willing to be influenced by reforms which are beyond a doubt instituted wholly from unselfish feelings and for the sake of the future of college sports. We cannot expect any further results than this at present. Harvard and Yale have practically united on an issue; they have taken their first steps and will be closely watched to see how well their theories...
...Physiology); 8, History, Civil Government, and Political Economy; 9, Geography (Physical Geography, Geology and Meteorology). Great care was taken in the forming of these conferences, as to the scholarship and experience of those chosen, as to the fair distribution of them in colleges and schools, and as to their proper geographical distribution. Every effort was made to have the movement thoroughly representative and exhaustive...