Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ways at the same time, then concluded to retreat, which it did with remarkable celerity. But I had made all my arrangements for going ahead, and found it difficult to change my entire plan of proceeding so in the twinkling of an eye, as it were. Consequently I kept right on, as if nothing had happened; that is, I kept on till a nail protruding from the floor carried away the entire front of my vest, and a goodly portion of my trousers, and thus arrested further progress. I was quite willing to stop there, as I had become thoroughly...
...that recitations are voluntary. Those gentlemen seem to ignore this fact when they mark students who are constant in attendance at recitations with greater leniency than those who are frequently absent. If the Faculty has seen fit to make a rule which gives us voluntary recitations, professors have no right to take an independent position and to state that men will find it advantageous not to cut. Provided a man write an accurate examination-paper, it is decidedly unfair to take absences into consideration in making up the marks of any elective. In addition, a professor lowers himself who attempts...
...Board of Directors voted to allow students to bring ladies to meals in the small room adjacent to the main hall of Memorial. As to whether this was wise or not, we have nothing to say. It was an innovation, but such an innovation as the Board had a right to make in case the Corporation found no fault with it. There was ample time for the Corporation to object if they wished, for the measure was not to go into effect until nearly two weeks after it was voted upon. The Board of Directors put up on their official...
...committee said that we were perfectly right in not being willing to occupy our old quarters again, and promised to consider the plans and specifications then laid before them. There the whole matter rested. Repeated efforts were made to induce the committee to take initiatory steps in the matter, but nothing was done, notwithstanding that the committee retained possession of the plans till they were called for after the race...
...besides those who have rowed a college race, can appreciate how depressing are the discomforts of poor quarters to a training man. The Crew were perfectly right in being unwilling, after making the great sacrifices that they do, to risk the chances of winning their races, by going into bad quarters. The Executive Committee and the Crew fully appreciate the generous steps taken by the College towards solving the whole problem so satisfactorily...