Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the Thames course will be better this year than ever before, as much of the eel grass has been removed and the current has thus been rendered considerably faster...
...supported on the nineteenth of this month by as large a crowd of Harvard students as ever assembled outside of Cambridge to witness an inter-collegiate contest. Every man who owes allegiance to the blue standard of Yale will be on hand, and his lungs will be in far better condition than those of the men who have been travelling all day, therefore, in numbers we will find salvation. Most of the examinations will be over on the day of the game, and no reason for non-attendance can be given but laziness. Let us be vilified if we must...
...this country, Chainey, the English coach, was made to thoroughly understand that he was not employed to give instructions in the British style of rowing. His service would be rather to consolidate this with the American system, taking from each the good that was in them and producing something better than either. He was, moreover, to rig the boat and adapt it to the stroke determined upon, and in other ways make himself useful to the crew. For this he was to receive $25 a week. Cook and Cowles soon began to say that Chainey was incompetent. Cook, however, returned...
...Full answers to a part of the questions may be better than insufficient answers to the whole; full answers to all are better than either...
...dozen fellows did manage to straggle down to the boat house during the course of an afternoon, but now it is a rarity to see a solitary person there who is not in some way connected with the crew. There is not a college in the country which offers better facilities for seeing the crew while practising upon the river than Harvard. At Columbia everything is different. There it takes fully an hour instead of ten minutes, to go to the boat house upon the Harlem, yet every afternoon a number of students are present to encourage the eight...