Word: properous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...important branch of college athletics, but the meet last spring showed plainly that the ordinary quarter-mile track for running is not suitable for bicycle races. The league is being started with a view to having an annual meet apart from the Intercollegiate Track Athletic Games. On a proper track the men would make a much better showing, and enough different events could be formed to make it a success. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell and Pennsylvania have all expressed themselves in favor of such a league, and the prospect promises to be a success...
Considerations of loyalty to the University, then, the desire to keep its athletics in the proper light before the public and our own graduates, besides the very strong claims of the team itself and of the game, should stir up every student here to a greater interest, in the few days that are left of the football season...
...would urge upon you the necessity of appointing proper persons to lead the cheering in the different sections. The statement has at times been made, and perhaps with truth, that Harvard men do not support their teams as they should; that they cannot be made to cheer. Last Saturday, however, I was treated to a novel and certainly not agreeable side of the question: A body of Harvard men, comprising one whole section, not only willing but anxious to cheer, and repeatedly asking to be led, and the usher, apparently appointed for the purpose, either afraid or to lazy...
...outplayed their opponents; then, when reasonable hope ran high, an unexpected weakness gave Princeton the chance of victory which she was still able to take. This particular disappointment is very trying. Former games have somewhat accustomed Harvard to chagrin at the sight of "star" backs helpless for lack of proper interference; but it is hard to accept the fact that the staying power of the team has been overestimated. Still, though the physical training of the men is a point in which much pride has been taken, the lesson of the game with Princeton must not be disregarded. Repeated defeat...
With such an executive, the position and attitude of Pennsylvania would be always clearly defined and our college would secure the proper recognition...