Word: properous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present the proper time. (1) Several years required for the building and equipment of a modern war vessel. (2) Cost of building very low at present...
DUDLEIAN LECTURE.The Dudleian Lecture for the current academic year will be given in Appleton Chapel on the evening of May 16, by the Rev. Samuel M. Crothers, Preacher to the University. The subject for the current year is: "The proving, explaining and proper use and improvement of the principle of natural religion, as it is commonly called and understood by divines and learned...
Surely without a considerable penalty for failure to return "Reserved Books" to the Library at the proper time we should not be as careful in this regard as the peculiar circumstances make it necessary that we shall be; yet it does seem that the penalty now is too severe. To lose one's privilege of taking out books of that class means a great deal, especially since it is lost for a whole month, and this too, many times, when a little slip of the memory is alone the occasion. Is not the forfeit unnecessarily great...
...syllables is determined beforehand and even common speech has a measured cadence, a musical quality, to which rhetorical composition carefully attends, so that certain sequences are approved and others not. This difference of effect has until lately been almost entirely disregarded. And even now though many schools teach the proper method of utterance theoretically, yet it is so foreign to English modes that very rarely is a person found who knows anything about the quantitative pronunciation of Latin practically. Boys know that some syllables are long and others short, but what that difference means to the ear they can very...
...class nines either to practice or to play their regular games except on Norton's Field. In future years, there will be good diamonds on Soldiers Field, but to have a turf diamond there this year is a physical impossibility. It seems to us that this lack of proper practiceground is a misfortune. It is true that the class baseball games have of late years had a prominent element of farce in them, and yet, if it had not been for class baseball, what would have become of the 'varsity this year? Of the men who are at the 'varsity...