Word: properness
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...good amateur nines as Harvard has at hand, still there is no excuse in either statement for Yale's not taking the opportunity here offered to join the other colleges of New England in their movement to rid athletics of an evident evil. No one who takes a proper view of baseball cares about the absolute excellence of our nine's playing or wishes to see it equal that of a professional nine; all that the nine itself professes to care about, and certainly all that most of us want it to do, is to maintain a high position among...
About forty very meek and very proper freshmen attended the performance at the Boston Museum last evening, occupying three front rows of the orchestra chairs. With a fearful and blushing consciousness of their own wickedness, about forty very meek and very proper freshmen from time to time during the performance furtively glanced around, and beheld the eyes of some fifteen or twenty upper class men narrowly watching them. Not a sound was heard, however, but silently and stealthily, at the close of the performance, these freshmen glided from the scene of their terrible orgy, and emerged under the frosty starlight...
...training. Then follow general remarks upon exercise, diet, sleep, air, bathing, and other subjects of the same class. In these are given first of all some general directions, and, later on, rules applying to special cases. The rest of the book is given to a full indication of the proper use of each apparatus in the gymnasium, stating the weights, time and rate in each case. Under each of these headings are lettered sections which will be scored according to the needs of each man, as ascertained by medical examination, so that instead of the meagre information derived from...
...many. The third rule is but putting into the form of a formal regulation what has long been the practice in regard to candidates for the various crews and clubs of the college. The fourth rule, requiring ability to swim from all members of the crews, is eminently proper and commendable. The same rule is in operation, we understand, at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, England. A rule similar to the fifth rule has, we believe, already long been in force. It will be seen that the most important of these regulations relate to the exclusion of any element of professionalism...
...editor of Progress touches upon a momentous question. He says: "The Lehigh Burr does not like it that 'flannel shirts' are so much affected by the students. Outside flannel shirts I guess it refers to, for of course undershirts of flannel are strictly proper. I agree though with the Burr that outside flannel shirts for regular wear scarcely become young gentlemen at college...