Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shall be glad of any counsel from the homes of our students as to better ways of serving them, and we wish to have our attention called to any cases of special need in which we may be useful. General correspondence should be addressed to the Plummer Professor, though any Preacher will gladly consider such questions as may be more appropriately addressed...
...students in the pleasure and duty of helping on the services. "Here in the midst of liberal ideas tending toward elective studies, there is one matter in which there is no option-the wish of the university that every freshman who enters this week goes forth four years hence better fitted to withstand the allurements of the world. What we all want is the confidence of the students...
...Yale News argues that the officers of the freshman athletic teams should be appointed by the officers of the various University athletic associations. It says that this would do away with the disorders attendant on the first meetings of the class and as a result much better men would hold the offices of the freshman athletic teams...
...freshman who has played ball to any extent, should take the first opportunity of going to the field and practicing with the rest of the candidates. Rumor says that there are several very good players in the incoming class, but how far this report may be trusted will be better known when some of them will take the trouble to put in an appearance. Practice on Holmes will probably be continued as long as the weather permits...
Last, year the "T Company" erected a rather odd but very pretty little hall on the corner of College and Wall streets, opposite the "Scroll and Key," and now the "Stone Trust Company, " or "Sigma Delta Chi," better known as the "Book and Snake," a sister society of the "T Company," in the Sheffield scientific school, is about to erect a cloister, which, in all respects, will fill the modern idea of a club house...