Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...magazine completes its second year with to-day's number, one not much better or worse than the average - indeed the poetry is somewhat below par, though the prose is fully as good as usual...
...dramatic, powerfully written and most instructive dialogue by Mr. Donaldson, is genuinely original, and certainly a perfect description of how men talk, if not, thank heaven, of the way women act. Follow a poem by Mr. De Wolf, Jr. one line of which might be altered for the better: it would read more effectively...
...should not be so, for it affords no opportunity of hiding flaws and exercises healthily the powers of insight and imagination; whereas descriptions of moonlight and murders, such as our immaturity writes them, are morbid in all their tendencies. We cannot, of course, all be Thackerays, and "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," with the Muses as with less ethereal petticoats. But a vapid dalliance with literature is demoralizing in the last degree...
...absurdity of the college crews-maintaining the secrecy that they attempt to regarding their movements and performances prior to the time of the annual race. As one of these authorities says, if the young men were attempting to jockey the public, and, so to speak, inveigle innocent and unsuspecting betters into a confidence game, it would be all right for them to put forth what are, to say the least, misleading reports concerning their condition and chances of winning. If college races are to become hippodrome contests, then those engaged in them and their friends, are no doubt, under...
...business of the treasurers of the boat club has become a routine which is vicious on account of its want of susceptibility to new methods. If a thorough overhauling of the manner in which the accounts are kept, and the monies expended should take place, new life and better financiering would undoubtedly follow...