Word: properous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subject of evening dress, if the coat and waistcoat are properly cut and proportioned, and made from tasty cloth, a good dress suit will last a man through his entire college course. But a dress suit is the worst thing to experiment on; many of them are out of style when new, simply because they are not properly cut. The Tuxedo can be dispensed with, if one is to be economical, but not the dress suit, for that is indispensable for every occasion of any importance after sun-down. The long frock is the swell coat of the season...
Nobody would be so rash as to say that because the eleven is so good, we are bound to win; what this part does mean is that the chances are good, that the men have been working all the fall in the proper spirit,- the determination to play as they never played before. If defeat comes, it will be the fault of nobody, it will be because we were outdone by superior ability...
...practice of the last two or three weeks has been in secret. Every man in college, however much fault-finding he has permitted himself, is aware, deep down in his heart that secret practice was the one proper thing. Of course none of us know just where the eleven stands, but we do know surely that they have made great improvement since we last saw them play, and that they in ever way deserve our confidence, for they will play to the fullest extent of their ability...
...right, not merely to beg, but to demand accommodations at any time we wish them. The times when we all particularly wish to go are just those times when we have here men of repute, and at such times this trouble always occures. Is it not time that the proper authorities made some provision for those who have the best, the only right to Appleton Chapel...
Those only can draw dividends who are members of the college proper, the Institution for the Collegiate Instruction of women, or the Episcopal Theological School...