Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accomplish so worthy an object, labor and perseverance of a most exalted kind is necessary, as little short of supernatural power will bring upon Yale to-day the two defeats which we so earnestly desire. Harvard has five hundred more students than Yale. Her facilities for ball playing are better. Boston is the centre of the base-ball enthusiasm of this country, and yet men look for defeat to-day and say that Yale has a better team than Harvard. It is ridiculous that such a state of affairs should exist. Can it be that the solution lies in that...
...with the soil that one feels distinctly enough the impossibility of detaching the lives of Escott and Eldon, of Margaret and. Harold, from their environment, yet one at the same time realizes, even more distinctly, that the passions and natures of these people are true to humanity. What is better still, they are true to a phase of humanity which is neither degraded nor trivial, but which, though of necessity marked with error, is nevertheless essentially noble and high. We know of no instance in fiction where a love between man and woman, which could not exist and be given...
...with an even, level temper which looks as if the writer had kept carefully within the limits of what was positively attainable. One gets an idea, that is to say, that the next novel one may have the good fortune to receive from the same hand will be even better than this...
...class series this year has been watched with more interest than ever before, and the games played with a few exceptions, have been of a higher order than formerly; but it may yet remain an open question whether the base-ball interests of Harvard would not be served better by a consolidated second nine similar to the one at Yale. Such a team would give the best practice that the 'Varsity could obtain in this neighborhood, if the present restrictions in regard to professional nines should be continued another year...
...stand around Jarvis, gossip and look pretty; that the captain goes out only once and awhile, at such times as do not interfere with his social engagements. We would inform this meddler. Why should he question the actions of the nine and its captain? Do not they know better than he? Let him see to it that he meddles no more in matters he does not understand. It has seemed to some, perhaps, like brazen effrontery for the nine to flaunt their striped blazers in the faces of those who paid for them, and to calmly spend their time...