Word: properly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stricter in enforcing its rules, for there are more than enough Harvard men to keep the courts in use, without the help of outsiders. We mention this subject as much to rouse the sentiment of tennis players as to criticise the association. In this case at least, a proper spirit on the part of certain college men would have prevented the intrusion...
After the inscriptions had been discovered the work of deciphering them was tremendous and would have been impossible if it had not been that in the sixth century before Christ the Persians reduced an alphabet from this Babylonian script. The recurrence of proper names afforded a chance to compare these records with known history, but the greatest advance in decipherment was made when an extensive inscription was discovered written parallel in Persian and Cuneiform characters. Stereopticon views were shown explaining the geography of the Assyria, pictures of the ruins, excavations and restorations, and facsimiles of the inscriptions discovered...
...complaining, not without reason, I trust, against abuses of privilege, I wish to add an emphatic protest against college "sponges." Doubtless there are occasional times when earnest men do not, for a sufficient reason, bring their text books to a recitation or lecture; in which case it is entirely proper to ask the opportunity to look on with a neighbor in class, or glance over his lecture notes at a later time. But when a man systematically fails to bring his text-book to the class room, or cuts one lecture out of every three, and then depends upon some...
...shall be the duty of the secretary to issue all proper notices, to keep a true record of all meetings of the club and proceedings of the Governing Board...
...earlier than they otherwise would be enabled to go. If every freshman subscribes the most he can afford, there will be no cause for Harvard men to grumble that Ninety three's crew was defeated by Yale for lack of class enthusiasm and want of fond for proper training...