Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University crew. The expenses of the crew for this year will not exceed the amount named, and do not need to any year. For four hundred dollars a janitor could be hired to give all his time and care to the premises, and so keep them in much better order than at present...
...become generally admitted in Europe, that one gains more from his University course if he spends his time on one department of study, than by "spreading" himself over a variety of subjects. And even here it is gradually getting to be acknowledged that a thorough education is better than a superficial one. Now, no one will maintain that a thorough education can be gained by electing one or two courses in each department that appears on the scheme. Yet how often this is done! How many men are there who choose their studies for the Sophomore year without the slightest...
...place. Should we fail, by reason of a morning nap or otherwise, to reach the hall before this early hour, either breakfast or chapel must be sacrificed. A modifying suggestion to extend the breakfast hour from seven to half past eight has been made. This plan, which is certainly better than the first, will perhaps be acceptable to many. But this course is also open to objections, since for all those who would get breakfast after prayers (and this number would perhaps represent the majority) there would be left only the second choice, the picked bone. The first plan...
...left to do the work, and in doing it, attack subjects which are as much too deep for them as logic is for women, and of which they are as ignorant as a pig is of politeness, there is nobody to blame but those who could and should do better...
...Women are now admitted to all the privileges of Harvard College. Eastward the star of education takes its way. Kansas, from the first, founded her university on the better-half theory. . . . . We are almost at a loss to understand why it is that in these latter days Harvard College has fallen heir to so many adverse criticisms, not from its enemies alone, but from its friends. Either its recent history has been one of rapid retrograde, or else the scholarship of New England has gone suddenly ahead of the standard of its most venerable seat of learning. It has been...