Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fancy flannel shirts, different styles of cheviot shirts, etc. I make a specialty of white twill tennis flannel and white English serge which is warranted not to shrink. I have great facility for manufacturing the above goods and I guarantee to give perfect satisfaction and to make cheaper and better than any other store in the city. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard street, Cambridge...
...other two clubs of the old league. The triangular league would have undoubtedly been the best in every way, for the objections that were made to the "weaker" college nines remaining in the league surely appertain to Columbia. As for the old league, it is in every way better apportioned than the new one, and the members - Amherst, Williams, Brown and Dartmouth - will enter for the championship well matched, each feeling that it has an excellent chance for championship honors...
...fancy flannel shirts, different styles of cheviot shirts, etc I make a specialty of white twill tennis flannel and white English serge which is warranted not to shrink. I have great facility for manufacturing the above goods and I guarantee to give perfect satisfaction and to make cheaper and better than any other store in the city. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard street, Cambridge...
...walk. He jumped 5 feet 3 inches. The bar then was raised to 5 feet 6 1-2 inches. Clark cleared this, and finally 5 feet 8 inches. A tie between him and Rogers was the result. In jumping off the tie, Rogers made three unsuccessful attempts to better his record. Clark, however, was more fortunate, and by clearing 5 feet 8 5-8 inches, won the cup. Last year he did 1-8 of an inch better...
...Most of the members of university teams were present and it was decided to form a club, which should be composed entirely of the members, past and present, of university teams, and should have for its object the bringing together of athletic men on a social basis for the better improvement and discussion of college athletics whether intercollegiate or not. Officers were chosen as follows: Franklin Remington, president; W. A. Brooks, vice-president; A. P. Butler, secretary, and A. F. Holden, treasurer. These officers with Messrs. Woodman and Adams to constitute a committee of government...