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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...understood that the Corporation, although it has had the infirmary question under consideration for over a year, has not as yet taken any definite action on account of the difficulty in obtaining a proper site. However this may be, it looks at present as though the Corporation were not sufficiently impressed with the actual need of such an institution. It would seem that such questions as those of obtaining a convenient situation and financial support should be looked to with greater promptness when the physical welfare of students is interested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/7/1897 | See Source »

...purpose. He has no more right to give a place to a congressman in return for a vote than he has to give him a piano out of the public treasury. Such a policy is dangerous as well as odious. If he confines his influence on legislation to its proper sphere he can lead the people but he can never drive them. Corrupt conditions of spoils may seem for a time to cause prosperity, but the prosperity is always artificial as in the case of England when Walpole was premier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. BONAPARTE'S LECTURE. | 3/24/1897 | See Source »

...tuesday, March 30. All members of the class who desire to attend are urged to sign the blue-book at Leavitt and Peirce's at their earliest convenience, in order that the committee may not be hurried at the end, but may be enabled to make full and proper arrangements at once. Tickets are now on sale at Leavitt's for $2.25. No dress suits are to be worn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Dinner. | 3/20/1897 | See Source »

...exhibition in some other place than the Trophy Room. There are also many footballs, baseballs, flags and other trophies won by Harvard teams from year to year which are either put away like the cups or selfishly taken by individuals. All will agree that the Trophy Room is the proper place for these things, but to keep them safely glass cases are needed. The room is so constructed that glass cases could very conveniently be built into the walls at small expense. Surely the Athletic Committee should be willing to have the Graduate Athletic Manager appropriate enough money to attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/4/1897 | See Source »

...poem entitled "At Sea," though at times grotesque in its language, has caught something of the proper swing, and a reckless exultation which faintly suggests Kipling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 3/3/1897 | See Source »

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