Word: properness
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...system of groups of requirements and claims that the beginning made in changing the requisities for admission has been defective. "Paring down classics in order to allow room for a little more book knowledge of science, has proved mischievous. It deprives students who prefer classics of some of their proper fitting, and obliges those who lean towards science to cram on superficial primers in a way which is very unsatisfactory." What it proposes is to have two lists of admission requisitions, one prescribed, the other elective. "Under the first head let those studies be placed in which every boy should...
...desirous of making votes and political capital for Governor Butler, it will take the advice of the Journal in the matter of conferring the degre of LL. D. upon the governor. He is Dr. Butler already, another college having conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him. But the proper thing for Harvard to do is to follow the 27 precedents it has made in this century, by conferring the customary honor upon the present chief magistrate. Then if anybody wants to change his will, why let him change it to his heart's content. - [Post...
...apply to capital invested in improvements on land. There was no rent paying land, but there was not any no-interest paying capital. The interest on capital invested in land was the same as on capital invested in any other employment. Political economy has to deal with rent proper, alone...
...tenure of a court shall be subject to the following conditions: The holders of a court must take proper care of it and see to its marking out, rolling, etc.; if, in the judgement of the executive committee of the association, the holders of a court do not take proper care of it, the holders can, at the discretion of the executive committee, be deprived...
...with the rebuke implied in blank silence. It is a kind of response which he finds it hard to reconcile with ordinary standards of civility. To put on a peculiar, if not grotesque, badge or decoration which inevitably challenges inquiry as to its meaning-a natural and proper inquiry on the part of an acquaintance-and then to be dumb when any remark is made respecting it, strikes the stranger not wonted to our ways as a want of courtesy...