Word: proper
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...metaphor, he was "pocketed" at the very start. He stopped and claimed a foul. Mr. Lee, meantime, trotted over the course, and won the heat. The judges allowed the foul, but, inasmuch as the man who fouled was not the winner of the heat, they did not think it proper that the heat should be run over again...
...that Gosling does drink to excess, but I say that he will if Swellington does, and I draw the conclusion from Gosling's conduct in other matters. When "D" says that no man ever "drank to excess, in spite of his dislike to liquor, because it was the 'proper caper,'" he shows a surprising lack of knowledge of human nature. It is natural for a man to do what the man whom he admires does. Human nature is much the same in Harvard College as it is in the world at large, and the only reason why the Harvard Gosling...
That any one who knows much of college men and college manners seriously believes this is true, I doubt. Who ever heard of a man who, in spite of his dislike to liquor, drank to excess because he heard it was the "proper caper"? A great many hard things have been charged against the Harvard undergraduate; but this is the first time, to my knowledge, that he has been accused of imbecility...
THERE are now nine universities in Russia. They cannot boast of great antiquity, for in Russia proper there was no university until the middle of the eighteenth century, when one was founded at Moscow by the Empress Elizabeth...
...mark may have been regarded as some evidence of conscientious work, more or less reliable as a criterion of scholarship. But under the elective system, which encourages special studies in the course marked out by the student for his career in life, he should receive from the college a proper recognition of his actual standing in those special branches of study, or else the present plan of determining college rank by an average mark ought to be entirely abolished, and a final examination for a degree substituted, as in the German universities...