Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having been informed that you are proposing to publish an article on football, criticizing the methods of playing of the Princeton team. I venture to write you this letter. Of course I have no right to ask you to refrain from publishing anything, but I think it is proper to say that all the authorities of Harvard University would deeply regret the publication of anything derogatory to Princeton, or its football team; and that we should be very grateful it you saw fit to withdraw the article in question. Very truly yours, (Signed) A. Lawrence Lowell...
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Sirs: TIME is unusual. In your Jan. 10 issue, under heading of "Elk City, Okla.," p. 4, col. 3, you refer to Letter Carriers, which is the proper designation of the men of Uncle Sam who deliver the U.S. mail. Invariably, the Press and the Public refer to them as mailmen or postmen, which is highly improper. . . . Frank Crane . . . recently eulogized the Letter Carrier and referred to them as mailmen rather than Letter Carriers. . . . A mighty small thing, yet I believe every Letter Carrier appreciates being referred to as a Letter Carrier. Thanks to TIME for setting a precedent. BURT...
...Philadelphia men are confident they have the remedy for rheumatism. But, proper scientists, they made their announcement cautiously: "We are making only modest claims as to the value of this new serum because it is still in the experimental stage, and too small a number of cures has been effected to evaluate properly its ultimate efficacy. We do not wish to arouse undue hopes in the minds of sufferers from acute rheumatic fever with the announcement of this report, realizing that there will be many disputes in the medical profession, both pro and con, as to the real merits...
...During the past year manufacturers ol serums have been circularizing doctors and dog owners with descriptions of a serum to immunize dogs against rabies, such serums are injected into the dog and protect him in the same way as the proper serums protect humans against typhoid fever or smallpox. This was one of the means used to fight the recent rabies situation in Louisville, Ky. (TIME, Dec. 27). But useful as is the serum, the literature has been causing a mild hysteria about "mad dogs" across the country...