Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...life of a true, christian gentleman. We are the leaders of the American community; we must be it when we go forth from here. For this we must have life, and let us get it here at its fountain. We, as preachers here, have for our object to become better acquainted with you, to know you as man knows man, and to offer you what alone makes the difference in our feelings, our experience of life...
...college what the long months of training have accomplished. That the "veritable Samsons," as the New London newspapers call them, will come out of the contest with new laurels we firmly believe, for the Columbia stroke is an essentially weak one. For this reason, although Columbia often has better material in her boat than her opponents, she has seldom rowed a successful race. As for the races of next week, we feel confident that they will also be won by our crews, although their opponents are very formidable. We take this last opportunity amid the "rush of waiters...
...what he had been cracked up to be, and that the men were not improving under his care. He was therefore discharged. "Bob" Cook was then called upon, and he has had charge of the crew ever since. Under him the men are said to have been doing much better work, although hardly up to the standard of former years. Last May, in the Yale class races, the 'varsity was defeated by both '87 and the freshmen, but it is more than probable that the men were not exerting themselves to their utmost...
...such a complete change from the hard study of the winter, and there is just excitement enough, in watching the other crews and thinking about the races to prevent anyone's getting tired of the place. As I have said before, the crew are all very well, feeling much better, they say, and certainly looking better than they did just before leaving Cambridge. This afternoon they rowed as follows...
...rowing precisely the same stroke which succeeded so well last year, and which they have been practicing all this spring. Since leaving Cambridge, however, the men have become rather steadier, and have become more shaken together. There is not so much splashing, and the men get their work in better from their stretchers...