Word: properous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...editorial in Saturday morning's CRIMSON expresses the hope "that the challenge which the Freshman Debating Club has sent to Yale will not be accepted." However perfectly I may agree with the reasons brought forward in support of this position, I must say that the proper time for such an editorial seems to me to have long since passed. Especially is this true in view of recent articles in the CRIMSON where approval of such a challenge, if not definitely expressed, was at least pretty clearly implied. So far as I have been able to find...
Dean Hodges made a short address at a public meeting of the St. Paul's Society last night. He spoke on the institution of Ash Wednesday and on the proper manner of observing Lent. He pointed out that Ash Wednesday was the beginning of Lent but that there was no end. The words forty days merely stood for an indefinite number. The observation of Lent was like the climbing of a ladder, one always reaches to a fresh rung and leaves the old one behind. Each succeeding Ash Wednesday is the fresh rung in the ladder...
...Ellis of Pennsylvania introduced the question of having international games this year. He suggested that the executive committee be instructed to address the proper authorities at Oxford and Cambridge with the view of having a contest in track and field games in England during the coming summer, the time suggested being July. Mr. Ellis said that the teams could not be confined to Oxford and Cambridge, but that the latter could have the option of selecting their men if they wished from any college in the British island...
...fostered and strengthened. It is for you to show that as your limbs are stronger, so your minds are cleaner, your lives more sweet and wholesome. Then hold up the hands of us older men who believe in college athletics; who think they can be put upon their proper plane, can be pursued in their proper spirit, given their due prominence in college life, and no more...
...should not be so. The true sportsmanlike spirit, so often referred to yet so often forgotten, should be present at all times and under all circumstances, unflinchingly condemning the slightest deviation from gentlemanly play. Where rules must always fail, the cultivation of this spirit will raise football to its proper plane as probably the finest of athletic games...