Word: properness
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...clear duty of college governments to prohibit it absolutely, under penalty of expulsion. To allow and encourage it is a fraud upon parents, the majority of whom send their sons to college to obtain an education in something more valuable than athletics, though these have their proper places and their value. Harvard College is one of the chief, if not the chief, offenders in this respect, and I am only one of many who believe that its course in this, as in other matters, is as wrong as it can well be." It is appaling to contemplate the flood...
...reason and, in truth, there is no reason - except our own lack of business enterprise - why we should not get the same accommodations from the railroads that other colleges get. All that is necessary, in this matter, as it seems to me, is to lay the question in its proper light before the railroad authorities; and, I think, we shall receive a satisfactory reply. But who is going to submit the question? It might be done by petition, or better, if some member of the faculty would kindly consent to confer with the railroad officials. For the solicitation...
...ways: either the ball can be brought in and placed, or it can be punted in and placed. Further, it is stated that in case the goal is kicked the touchdown shall not count. Moreover, the referee's decision is final, given as it was with a proper explanation...
...university into the front rank of American colleges and forced them to needed reforms, and fearing that it was growing dormant in the breasts of the authorities, certain public-spirited individuals recently demolished a wooden bridge leading to the campus. This action was expected to bring forcibly before the proper persons the fact that the bridge was not in keeping with the other property of the university. Like many radical reforms, this did not meet with that appreciation which is encouraging. Some of the reformers will probably soon be in a state of animated suspension, as the faculty holds frequent...
...been carefully trained, and all the superfluous adipose matter burned away in gradual, but steady work. Most ordinary persons can indulge in it, however, without any fear of bad results, provided they are only careful to commence gradually and not try to do too much at a time. The proper attitude in running is with the chest well forward, the head leaning slightly back, the body straight on the hips, the arms close to the upper ribs and the fists closed, but in mere exercise it is best to give your arms more freedom, and to work them back...