Word: properous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...order to lessen the excessive notoriety and bring the game within the proper limits of a college sport, they recommend (1) That all games be played upon the home grounds of the competitors; (2) That the sale of tickets be limited to graduates and undergraduates for themselves and their guests; (3) That all efforts on the part of the press to give undue publicity to the game throughout the season be discouraged...
...College duties. They have no illusions as to the evils of intercollegiate football in its present condition; but they are reluctant to believe that Yale and Harvard teams cannot compete with each other in the spirit of gentlemen or that it is impossible to bring the sport into a proper relation with the main purposes of college life. They have great confidence in the judgment and sportsmanlike spirit of Dr. Brooks and his associates and it is, therefore, their unanimous opinion that it is worth while to make an earnest, determined effort to free the game from its objectionable features...
...rule was adopted prohibiting the presence on the inner field during the games, of all persons except the officials, the members of the executive committee, and the contestants at the proper time for their events...
...varsity crew yesterday went out for the first time this year in the eightoared barge. The water was very rough and the crew remained out only long enough to enable the proper changes in the rigging to be made...
...evils of publicity are not, how-ever, limited to disturbing the proper relations between mental and physical training. There is beyond this the offensive notoriety from which the press allows no football player to escape. Gentlemanly games are reduced to the same level as professional exhibitions and the tone of collegiate contests is inevitably lowered, by the sensational importance which attaches to them in the papers. For this, it must be admitted, there is some excuse. When college men admit to their sports any one who will pay for the entertainment, and carry this practice into cities where there...