Word: properly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...such, to become the modern counterpart of the Roman circus as dispensers of spectacular entertainment to the public. Woodrow Wilson once said with truth that athletics were the "side shows of academic life". Today football tends to become the main show. Good sense calls loudly for a return to proper relations between football and scholarship at Harvard...
...Harvard, is merely to repeat Spark's old argument. Why, then, is it still given? And why does almost the entire Freshman class still take it? The obvious answer is that students do not order their precollege work correctly. But even so, are secondary schools never to assume their proper burden and really prepare boys for college? Certainly they never will so long as colleges consider it their duty to teach all the odds and ends of elementary subjects preparatory schools leave untaught...
...term "pander," as you should have recalled, is derived from the proper name "Pandarus." Need I add that Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare all represent Pandarus, a son of Lycaon and leader of the Lycians in the Trojan war, as an unmitigated pimp, who procured Cressida for the dissolute Troilus? To a scholarly mind your use of pander in place of "agent" and without the connotation of lasciviousness is intolerably careless. Thomas Cook & Son are no more panders than is a magazine such as TIME. Neither attains to the requisite taint of immorality...
...Since 1884 Harvard has been aimlessly trying one experiment after another, and magnificent material has gone to New London and been sacrificed for want of proper moulding. During this time Yale has continued to pursue a settled policy, and has continued to pursue a settled policy, and has kept the services of Mr. Cook. It is a noteworthy fact that while many fine oars were taught and have mastered the stroke set by Mr. Bancroft, not one of these men has been willing or could give the time to act in the capacity of coach for Harvard crews...
This gentlemanly argument was really not concerned with the proper disposition of time to achieve a given end. These two educations are aiming at different results and, properly enough, approve different methods. A four year college course intends to develop the student's cultural background. It may succeed only to a deplorably small extent, but that is the intention behind it, and its eminently valid excuse for existence. On the other hand, the type of education which Dean Hawkes champions concerns itself more immediately with a profession. On the ground that an attorney or business man must be fairly well...