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Word: proper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since he omitted the formality of providing himself with the proper passport and immigration papers. Dr. Huey is wanted by the State Department, and will be kept under cover until things are fixed up by Charlie Apted, guardian plenipotentiary of Harvard University and her treasures. As soon as he may show himself about the Square with some degree of immunity, at least from the federal officers, the CRIMSON promises to hold a public reception for the great Oriental dopester to introduce in person this new star on the Cambridge horizon to his vast public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUEY FINALLY REACHES CAMBRIDGE BUT HAS TO HIDE FROM AUTHORITIES | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

...comfortably through life. If he was born into the world with normal interests and average abilities, if his main ambition is to obtain a good job, settle down, pay his bills, and in other ways become a respectable member of the community, college will have given him the proper equipment. His concentration will have given him sufficient knowledge and training to hold his job; his distribution will have endowed him with certain stimulating outside interests to serve as retreats from his job; his social and athletic training will have given him friends, and prepared him to spend his leisure time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Dean William I. Nichols Writes in Atlantic Monthly on the Convention of Going to College | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

...will fortunately not be raised at Harvard for some time to come; for what arc lights there are have been virtually relegated to the limbo of superannuation from which they are not likely to emerge for a few years. And so the man who likes his football with a proper amount of preface and aftermath is still in style. Whether the overemphasis on the preface and the virtual elimination of the aftermath can be in any way compensated for, is a question which will probably hold the new system in abeyance until its satisfactory solution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE | 9/25/1929 | See Source »

...timely warning to any prospective loafers would not be out of place here. Professor Ward demands precision in his students just as he exercises it himself. With proper attention, however, Meteorology 1 should provide some of the most lasting and interesting knowledge of the whole college course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONTINUED GUIDE HAS CRITICISM OF COURSES | 9/24/1929 | See Source »

...expected that once the proper concessions are made the Theatre Guild will be able to produce its show in Boston proper, although Mayor Nichols has thus far remained obdurate in his refusal of his permission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "STRANGE INTERLUDE" MAY PLAY IN CAMBRIDGE | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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