Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Track athletics promise to be better represented this year than ever, and the interest displayed in this branch of athletics is unusually great...
...Heretofore the freshman glee clubs have contained not more than twenty-seven voices, but this year, owing to the closeness of the competition, it was thought best to try the experiment of going beyond the usual limit. If it is found later on that the club would do better with fewer men, probably about five voices will be dropped-two from the first basses and one from each of the other parts. The club is not quite as far advanced as the Ninety-one club was at this time last year, but the men are improving rapidly and the outlook...
...Should use his stretcher more in rowing and should sit up to his work better. He breaks his arms too soon...
...said that the professors of any particular college are not competent to regulate its discipline and curriculum, we answer that they are in that case unfit for their places, and that better men should be found, and better salaries paid, if necessary, to get them, and not that the government of the college should be handed over to persons burdened with other cares, and whose chief attention is given to other subjects...
...Shaw rows too mechanically and should get his weight off the stretcher better. He goes back...