Word: properness
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While it is necessary that the rules, in defining the proper range of a player during a scrimmage, should prohibit off-side play, yet the latter has become an important and interesting point in the science of foot-ball, so much so, indeed, that lovers of the sport would not like to see it rendered impossible by doing away with the warning. Besides, the rules should not place off-side play on a par with such cowardly and unmanly offenses as tripping, throttling, etc., by prescribing the same punishment for both. Under the present code the penalties in some instances...
...possess an aching void, By proper medicine taking...
...score two victories over Yale. We are far from believing this impossible, and even consider the chances good provided only work is begun in time and in the right spirit. The material at hand in the class is undoubtedly as good as the average, if not better, and with proper coaching and plenty of enthusiasm, a good nine should be turned out in the spring. It is a disgrace that so many classes in succession have succumbed to their Yale classmates in base-ball, and it is time that a resolute "brace" should be made to turn the tide...
...State before practising in it, proficiency in hygiene is prescribed as one of the requisites for admission to practice; so that a graduate of the Harvard Medical School hitherto might justly be exclude from the profession in any of these States. This recognition of the importance of a proper training in sanitary science comes none too soon, and the Harvard Medical School is fortunate in securing so practical and accomplished a lecturer on the subject as Dr. Samuel H. Durgin, chairman of the city Board of Health...
...present freshman class contains 253 members. Of these, according to the catalogue 56 come from Boston and suburbs, 45 from the city proper. The members from the different States and from foreign countries are as follows : Massachusetts, (including Boston) 149, New York 40, Pennsylvania 13, California 8, Maine 6, Ohio 5, Illinois 4, New Hampshire 4, Washington, D. C. 2. Delaware 2, Maryland 2, Missouri 2, Nebraska 2, Rhode Island 2, Washington Territory 2, Alabama 1, Connecticut 1, Indiana 1, Iowa 1, Louisiana 1, Oregon 1, Virginia 1, Cuba 1, Turkey 1, India 1. Total...