Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nine leaves for Princeton this afternoon. Although unsuccessful in its first game with Princeton the nine has made a decided improvement both in batting and in fielding and we are confident that it will make a much better fight tomorrow than in the last game...
...last article of the number is "Father and Son," by C. H. C. Wright. It is a well written story of the revolution, giving promise of much better work. The style is simple and direct except in the description of the Major's anger, when it approaches the rhetorical. The unexpected ending is very effective...
...seniors and juniors played their scheduled game on Jarvis yesterday afternoon. The game was very poorly played by both sides but Eighty-nine 4howed up much the better. The only commendable feature of the game was occasional good base sliding by both nines. Only seven innings were played. The score is as follows...
...Better measures would result from this exchange:- Overland Monthly vol 3, p. 17; Woodrow Wilson, Congressional Government...
...freshman Glee and Banjo clubs gave a concert for the benefit of the freshman crew, last evening in Boston at the house of Lewis Hall, '92. The Glee club sang much better than ever before, the Banjo club played very well, and the concert was an admirable one in every way. Both the clubs have shown marked improvement, and the Cambridge concert which will probably be given one week from tonight, bids fair to be a most successful...