Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long felt want, that of regular and systematic practice for the nine which represents the college. Not only this, but players who in the beginning of the season have not shown up well enough to get a place on the picked team, may by careful work develop into better players than some members of the regular nine. As an athletic venture for the improvement of the base-ball players, the new scheme will undoubtedly prove a success, but as a financial investment the outlook is not so encouraging. It is rather difficult to see how people will...
...Committee,S. M. MACVANE."The object of the committee is to make way with as many as possible of the evils which the present Tabular View contains. Students will be glad of this opportunity to speak with the probability of obtaining a change for the better in the grouping of courses...
...very well. Of course, if the Keystone State, including Philadelphia, should really want us at this late date to step down and out, of course, just for friendship's sake, we might be persuaded to leave the lately formed quadrangular league and make way for the league which sounds better...
Arthur Boykin, a graduate, then spoke on "Africa in America." He emphasized what a former speaker had said of the sore need of competent teachers in the South, of the eagerness with which the negroes seize all opportunities offered them. The speaker gave a short sketch of his life, better to show the need of his people. Mr. Boykin was followed by Marguerite La Fleshe, who spoke of the difference of the condition of her people, the Omahas, to-day, and fifteen years ago when she lived among them. Then they lived as tribes; but in the interval they have...
...rest a day and then go on. If one finds his lungs a little weaker than the others, and that he cannot run from a warm gymnasium into the cold, frosty air without injuring himself, he leaves the team. And yet, perhaps, that very man would row a better race in June than the others...