Word: proper
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FRESHMEN are informed that H. M. S. "Pinafore" is a perfectly proper comic opera, and therefore will be a suitable entertainment for them to witness...
...going to Boston, never take a car before ten A. M.; it is too early to be up, and interferes with the breakfast at the Holly Tree. It is quite proper to take any car from eleven to twelve, as this shows an entire disregard of recitations, and you will be sure to meet Doggy, '80, going to visit some of his clothiers and then to lunch at Parker's. The cars between two and four are frequented by the men who have to go in at this hour in order to get back to Memorial at 5.29; after four...
...such purpose, and they should either make up their minds by a fixed time or be shut out entirely. The Sophomore class made a very small show on the programme, and still worse in the field; entering only five men out of thirty, which certainly is not their proper proportion. We hope they will feel the College expects more from them, and we shall all look for them carefully in the next meetings. The Freshmen have reason to be satisfied with themselves, and we with them, being the winners in six events out of ten. They appear...
...they would accept a challenge to row an eight-oared race about the first of August on the Putney-to-Mortlake course; he wished first, however, to impress upon Mr. Watson the necessity of his going as coach, for the mistake made in '69 was in not having a proper manager, and he thought Mr. Watson, who was strongly urged to go at that time, should make good his error by going next year, were the challenge accepted. Mr. Crocker, too, spoke strongly of the necessity of a good coach, and there was no one in whom the crew relied...
...competitor will be allowed to start without his proper number...