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Word: properly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1880
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...allowed to fall into disuse. But, either owing to oversight or negligence, no record of the last October races has yet appeared in the Gymnasium, and it is time for the Executive Committee of the Boat Club to see that this omission is rectified. It is also proper, in this connection, to remind the Athletic Association that a similar step on its part would add materially to the interest of the Gymnasium, besides supplying a permanent roll from which its records could be taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

...financial basis for the good management of their annual boat race. The "transportation interest" supplies this basis at New London, the "hotel interest" supplies it at Saratoga; and there are absolutely no other places in America where either interest is strong enough to find any pecuniary advantage in guaranteeing proper management for such an exceedingly costly affair as the annual Harvard-Yale race in its present form. The keeping of a clear course on the Thames, at the first trial in 1878, was an unprecedented achievement, implying an amount of preliminary labor never before given to any boat-race arrangements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO MORE FRESHMEN AT NEW LONDON. | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

...leaning upon his weapon and contemplating the fallen animal; at the same time chewing vigorously, and, with native simplicity of spirit, firing tobacco-juice at the exact centre of a small pebble some twenty feet distant. I was overcome with emotion; but even then I was proper. I blushed, saying, "Excuse my unwonted appearance, kind sir; and will you take me home at once, for I wouldn't be found here alone with you for any thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAISY SPRUCEWELL'S ROMANCE. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

...back scene will be the conventional Greek palace, with three doors. The seats will be taken from the floor of the theatre, in order that the thymele may be placed in its proper position for the movement of the chorus around it, as it comes in from the two parodoi, on the sides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREEK PALY. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

...team, it should not lead them to feel too much confidence in themselves, for it is needless to say that they will find Princeton and Yale teams very different opponents from those of Saturday's game. Constant and energetic practice is needed to bring the playing up to the proper standard, if we are to win the championship this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CANADIAN GAME. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

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