Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...usual large and close-fitting crowd was present at the gymnasium on Exeter street Saturday at the annual indoor meeting of the Technology Athletic Association. The sports were as a whole very good; better than last year. Harvard men were disappointed in having the tug-of-war team beaten, but the success of their representatives in other events partially compensated for this reverse...
...Friday night last, while Harvard was declaring that the old base-ball league was an inferior one, and that a new association, composed of better clubs, should be formed, Princeton likewise was discussing, in mass meeting, the project of forming a new league. The college voted to confer unlimited powers upon the base-ball management. So, now, the question is on a fair way to settlement. The old association meets upon Friday of this week, and it is hoped that all the arrangements for the new league will be completed before that time. Action by the management at Princeton...
...game was not at all satisfactory, and it is believed that many of its objectionable features may be removed in the new league. It was urged that last year Columbia had a very good nine, and it is fair to assume that this year she will have a better nine than any one of those which the smaller colleges in the existing league will have. It was also stated that Columbia would enter a league with Harvard and Princeton. So it was moved and carried that it was the sentiment of the meeting that Harvard should withdraw from the Intercollegiate...
...inherent in it awakens a great sensibility to moral questions, and we should do our share to further the cause. The lecturer then discussed the educational and political aspect of the prohibition movement. Life insurance companies take cognizance of a man's habits in drink. The total abstainer obtains better terms than the moderate drinker. The question of total abstinence is answered, and there is no longer any discussion upon the subject that adds anything new. We can tolerate elderly men who take their wine, for they were brought up under an old regime, but there is no excuse...
Black cutaway or frock coats would be far better and in better taste than a waiter's costume. Should the adoption of the gown be found - after submitting the matter to a vote of the class - impracticable, some action must be taken and taken...