Word: properness
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...very annoying. I refer to the habit of leaving the reserved books scattered all over the reading room. Men often take a book from the shelves for reference and, after they are done with it, let it lie on one of the tables instead of returning it to its proper place. This is the source of the greatest annoyance to many other men who wish to refer to the same book. It is often almost impossible to learn whether a particular book is in the library or not. One has to look over numerous piles of books on the different...
...hoped that there is some way of putting a stop to this annoying practice. It certainly is not so very difficult for men to put the books back in their proper places when they have used them. I speak from experience. A few days ago, after a half hour's search, I found a book from the Greek alcove reposing on the shelf of the History alcove...
...number of applicants for the nine is unusually large, and the raw material gives promise of some fine players, with proper training. - [Princetonian...
What is a kiss? A monosyllable form of communication, composed only of labials, frequently used as a conjunction, although an article, and more common than proper. (To be continued.) - [Harvard Herald.] It would be a poor kind of a kiss, if it wasn't to be continued! [Phila...
...regard to the requirements for admission at that time, we find the following : "To be received into the freshman class, the candidate must be thoroughly acquainted with the grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, including prosody; be able, properly, to construe and parse any portion of the following books, namely : Jacobs' Greek Reader, the Gospels in the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust and Cicero's Select Orations, and to translate English into Latin correctly. He must be versed in ancient and modern geography; the fundamental rules of arithmetick; vulgar and decimal fractions; proportion, simple and compound; single and double fellowships...