Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nicholas sang so that I forgot my annual awaiting me, I followed him up and down, until, meeting a severely critical friend, I basely shielded myself by asserting that I was searching for an officer to arrest the nuisance. Nevertheless I doubted that day if Capoul ever sang better...
...examination, and he certainly ought to have such opportunity. But all the information he could obtain in the case of Soph. History (first half-year) was that he passed the examination. He was left in ignorance of his mark until the shortness of the time precluded any attempt to better it at the semiannual examination. I have been gratified to hear that the marks in the History for the second half-year have been returned with more promptness, but this is of little practical comfort to those unfortunates who suffered in the examination of last September...
...alluding to the contrasts that exist between English and American student-life in regard to manners and morals, President Eliot thinks the tone of manners there better than it is in American colleges...
...point we tried to bring out clearly was, not why we should have more and better music at Harvard, but why we do not have it. This we traced back to the prevailing lack of energy, for which we could neither account nor propose any remedy...
...Whiting then introduced Captain Bancroft, who declined the responsibility of influencing the class in either direction, thinking it much better that they should decide for themselves. He said that, in his opinion, the class could not honorably withdraw from a race after what had passed, but if they were going to do so, it had better be at once than later. He concluded by proposing a ballot to decide on the general feeling of the class, of which a large majority was present. The motion was carried, and, a ballot being taken, it was decided by a large majority...