Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...continues athletics will do their best to find a lower level than the one they now occupy. No doubt such a task would be difficult but it is within the range of possibility. Many may say that the non-athletic men don't know about such things and had better use their power of speech on a subject with which they are more conversant. This is, we are convinced, a wrong view. A little more interference by the college might do something to get athletic matters out of the ruts which have held them so long. It might be well...
There is no better way to ascertain in what favor Harvard is held by young men preparing for college in the different localities of this country than by a comparison of the statistics of the various freshman classes. It has been the custom of the CRIMSON for several years to collect these statistics in order to find out the rise or decline of Harvard influence in the different states, cities and above all, the large preparatory schools of the United States. To begin with, below will be found a list of the number of the men who have entered...
DIRECTOR'S OFFICE,Hemenway Gymnasium,Dear Sir : One of the instructors with whom you have taken a course desires the photographs of all those reciting to him, for the purpose of ready identification and a better acquaintance...
...important courses, and the disagreeable delays of former years have thus been obviated. The prices are uniformly lower than those at the other dealers in Cambridge and the objects sold are of the very best quality. The selection of books is especially satisfactory as a man now gets a better chance to inspect new publications than was ever afforded before in Cambridge. We are nearly as well off now in this regard as are the students in the German university who get an opportunity to see practically every important publication that appears. Every one that cares for true economy will...
...priori right to enjoy a little fun with the freshmen on the night of the first classmeeting. With regard to the action of the faculty, it must be said that the tendency for "rushing" such as it exists at other colleges is gaining ground here, and that there are better ways of spending an evening than parading about the college yard in phalanxes and testing their lungs to the utmost to see which party can outdo the other in bravado. Besides, the yard is no place for rushes, Jarvis Field is reserved for that intellectual occupation. As soon...