Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game, as a whole, was the roughest and liveliest one seen on Jarvis this year. '89 played hard, and far better than a year ago, Perry, Griffing, Woodbury and Morgan being positively brilliant. The freshmen showed a deplorable lack of sand and science; Crane and Hunnewell were the only ones who did any playing at all, and Tyson and Higginson the only ones who tackled for anything but cap-tassels. At least three men in the rush-line are of not the least use whatever...
...called Woodman made a touchdown, from which there was not time to kick a goal. Score, 24 to 0. The second half showed a marked improvement. The fellows braced up, and played with more snap, and the work in the centre was quick and good. The result was a better looking score. Porter was playing in great shape, and time and again he carried the ball almost to the Technology line, knocking off the Technology rushers in great shape. Holden, too, was running well. Harding made two touchdowns, Porter two, Holden two, and Dudley one, from which Harding kicked five...
...Wellesley Preparatory School at Philadelphia opened under the most favorable auspices. Both boarding and day students have been rejected for lack of room. The crowded condition of the houses formerly occupied has led the directors to form plans for erecting a building better adapted to the increasing number of wants of the students. The Wellesley school at New York is also recorded as full and flourishing. - Globe...
...length of the Chapel service would be deemed too great a change by many. But much may be said in five minutes or less and the time might be gained by the use of shorter musical selections and the briefer psalms. At any rate there can be no better time for beginning this change than during the preaching of Dr. Brooks...
...three successive plays. Great improvement must be made in this particular before either Harvard or Princeton are met. Such teams will be quick to follow up the advantage obtained with most disasterous results to Yale. Princeton has a rush line equal to our own if not better, so that the game with her will have to be won by the superior work of our backs. It is easy to see then, how important it is that these faults be corrected. There remains but a week and a half before Thanksgiving Day, in which time great advancement in the work...