Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rider that can hold a candle to some of the U. of P. men. To be sure our track isn't very well adapted for bicycling but it is as good, I believe, as the track on which the Mott Haven games are held, and for a better training surface there is Chestnut Hill Reservoir, and a road for a couple of miles from it towards Boston (of which road I do not know the name) nearly as good as any track. Part of this lack of interest doubtless is due to the few bicycle races that are held here...
...this Yale will never consent to do, as she played there last year only on condition that future games should take place elsewhere. It is thought here that Yale will have her hands full to defeat either Harvard or Princeton, both of which colleges are reported to have much better teams than last year...
...music of last year was very good, it can be even better...
...those who do not play foot-ball during the fall, and who yet enjoy a bracing afternoon's sport, no better opportunity is afforded than the runs across country undertaken by the Hare and Hounds Club. Everyone feels the need of some sort of recreation after the studies of the morning and early afternoon, and it was in order to meet this demand that the club was first started. The cold, invigorating weather of the next two months and the character of the country round about Cambridge, made the sport a very popular one from the outset, so much...
...more civilized observance. It has now become the fashion for the members of the leading sophomore society to issue invitations to the freshmen who are considered likely to respond, requesting them to furnish "punch" on Monday night to the sophomore class. Many freshmen, new to' Harvard customs, know no better than to accept the invitation, and when they view their belongings on the following morning, their standard of Harvard life has been lowered materially, and they begin to wonder whether this well-worn saying is true, "No matter what else he may be, a Harvard man is always a gentleman...