Word: properly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Russia, the Irish land agitation, or Bismarck's imperial policy in Germany. It has been said that every man is most ignorant of the period in history immediately preceding that in which he lives. It would be the purpose of this course to train the student in a proper method of historical estimates of recent events. No more excellent discipline in historical studies could be devised than such a one as this...
...have wondered at and regretted our defeats in athletic games with Eastern colleges, but the fact is easily explained first by our lack of interest and work, and secondly by our lack of funds. We have plenty of men; the fact is evident. All they want is proper training and the proper support. There is enough latent interest; all it needs is to be aroused and it will ensure the proper warm support as far as encouragement and co-operation are concerned. [The Chronicle...
Third.-After the first year of elective study, the student can gain higher marks by electing courses closely connected with those which he has already taken, than by taking up new branches of knowledge. He is thus tempted to elect courses which will not afford him a proper amount of work and benefit...
...things and wonder how we ever endured them before. The gravel walks are so poorly graded and drained, and the flag walks so badly laid that they are all a series of puddles from end to end. The college may think that plank walks are more expensive than a proper grading and relaying of the paths. If so let them take this latter method of improvement. But this would be but a makeshift. These are many times when the best graded paths become clogged with snow and ice. In such cases the paths are as bad as poorly graded ones...
...some distant clubs. Let those taking part avow themselves openly as members of the H. A. A. and the students in general will take a greater interest in their doings and they, themselves, will receive a much heartier support at any games where they wish to compete. Then the proper spirit of pride in the college will be shown...