Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...training with Mr. Clarkson, the freshmen take light general exercise with the chest weights, bumb-bells, vaulting bars, and then have a short run. Churchill and Hill, candidates for pitcher, under the instruction of Mr. Clarkson have made very considerable progress, and Bell's strained shoulder is much better, so that the prospects for a battery are brightening...
...overture to "Der Freischuetz," though not a new one to Cambridge people, was never heard to better advantage here. The horn passages in the first parts are deserving of special comment and praise. The purity of these tones and delicacy of their execution was truly admirable. Owing to some misunderstanding about the piano the Unfinished Symphony was given before the Bruch selection. The audience showed a lively appreciation of Schubert's masterpiece and without doubt it was the favorite of the programme. Gericke brought out the melodic beauties of the work with true artistic feeling. The soloist of the evening...
...what was the result? A crushing defeat, such as had never been seen upon the Thames. At one time in the race there was almost half a mile between the two crews. Yale, naturally enough, retained the principles, the efficacy of which she had tested, and gave even a better exhibition of rowing than the Harvard crew...
...religious side of the life here is not pushed into the prominence which it attains in some colleges, but the testimony of those who come into closest touch with the students will bear us out in what we have said. No man understands the tendencies of Harvard life better than Phillips Brooks, and he has said that Harvard is the most religious of American colleges...
...Ward said that these lectures were not supposed to contain a complete treatment of Anthropology, but were intended rather to illustrate the application of that science to certain selected problems, and that he hoped in this way to make the general scope and uses of Anthropology better understood and more fully appreciated. Dr. Ward wished it to be clearly understood that religion had nothing to fear from Anthropological study...