Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although there are certain privileges and advantages which should be given to the different athletic organizations, there are also some few rights which should be retained by the body of students. It is now one of the rules of the gymnasium that regularly organized clubs shall at all times have the right of using the apparatus to the exclusion of individuals. This rule is naturally defective to a great extent regarding the chest-weights, and every afternoon after four o'clock it is almost impossible for one who is not fortunate enough to be trying for some crew or nine...
...enter rather for honor than for any substantial reward, but it is none the less certain that prizes which in themselves are worth competing for act oftentimes as a great incentive to hard and faithful work, and are no more than proper rewards for success. A step in the right direction was taken by the management last year, in substituting graceful and pretty cups for the ungainly pewter mugs formerly given. We trust that this year the improvement will be continued...
Yale and Harvard have the right, of course, to found an inter-collegiate custom, and after a short time abandon it to better and stronger oarsmen, but they have no right, in view of this fact, to claim to be the representative rowing colleges while at the same time confining their races to meetings with each other. - [Philadelphia Times...
...have no intention of deciding dogmatically which of the three sets of arguers are right, though our sympathies go with the last, and a good deal of respect with the first; but we want to point out a fact or two. One is that the people who, of all others, seek efficiency most, and that often at the direct cost of culture, the Scotch, have long since made up their minds upon the subject. They do not want to be soft-mannered men, or refined men, or refined men, or reflective men, but to be efficient men; yet they hold...
...intended for seniors and seniors alone to entertain their friends, and it is presumptions as well as extremely discourteous for a man to decline to give up his room on the ground that he expects to entertain himself upon that day. A man has no right to decline a request for his room upon any such plea. When he graduates he will have ample opportunity to entertain his friends, and if he expects others to give up their rooms to him then it is certainly just that he should do the same now that he has the opportunity...