Word: properity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...coaching as well as Bancroft. There are others who might fill the position but none whom we can think of who would be willing to devote his time, to become a professional teacher of rowing, even for the benefit of the Harvard crews. We sincerely hope that the proper man will be found before the end of the month and that our rowing interests will soon be placed on the path leading to the longed-for victory on the water...
...present system is a covert attack upon the National Banks: a. Silver certificates replace the national bank notes. which furnish a good currency, easily expansible. b. A proper security could be found to maintain this circulation; e. g., see John J. Knox's proposals, in his interview with the Common Banking and Currency...
...being opened up by modern science. Everything has now become wonderful; the insignificant pebble contains a page of the past history of the world written indelibly upon it, and the tiny flower gives up to the student the great truths of the universe. It is just as proper to speak of the word of the Lord as coming from Agassiz and Huxley as from Moses and Isaiah. When the great light of modern science came upon the world many were weak enough to think that the old revelations were thrown into discredit; they fell down on their faces instead...
...that time only one crew which did not use the "Watson Cook, Bancroft or English" stroke has won a race, and that crew had had the rudiments of rowing taught it by Bancroft. He adds that he thinks Harvard rowing men are slowly but surely coming back to the proper style...
...exquisitely perfect that Nature must almost wonder whether they are not indeed of her own handiwork. Of each species represented, there is shown not only the natural appearance and characteristics of the flower, of the leaves, stem. etc, but also such details as are important for the proper understanding of its fundamental structure and its place in the system of classification. The details too minute to be seen readily by the naked eye are shown in guified to a convenient size. And all are blown in glass and colored like nature, and are as lasting as the glass...