Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Shaler said, yesterday, in one of his courses, that he was much better satisfied with the new system of voluntary recitations than with the old system of compulsory attendance. Under the old system an average of 75 per cent was seldom maintained for a month. Now an average of 90 per cent is often sustained for months at a time, with classes containing 250 members...
...strongest team in the field while the freshmen were obliged to play two substitutes. The only point of the first half was a touchdown for '92 by Wrenn. No goal. During this half the ball was kept in Harvard's territory most of the time and Cambridge did better team work than Harvard...
...class, college popularity being greatly dependent on the prowess of the bat and oar. So long as the positions were desirable, it was natural for them to be filled by men whose families had wealth and social standing; for such men came to college with bodies better reared and trained for skilful athletic work. Continued defeat has caused positions on university teams in the last five years, literally speaking, to go begging. In the class of '87, there were men fitted by health and strength to lead the crew to victory, but who refused to sit in the boat...
...this fall has been no exception to the rule. But the attendance of three or four hundred students at a foot-ball game played in a drenching rain must have been a matter of surprise to any stranger who might have been present at Saturday's game. In no better way can the college show its appreciation of the praiseworthy efforts of the eleven than by its action on Saturday; and the enthusiasm thus shown under the greatest drawbacks, as far as physical comfort is concerned, must have been extremely gratifying to the members of the team. Still, we desire...
...Harvard is no worse than any of her sister colleges. On the contrary any unbiased observer will admit without hesitation that in no college in America are the students more gentlemanly than here. Nowhere do they preserve better order among themselves than here; nowhere are hazing and rowdy-like amusements frowned on as here, and nowhere is the "fast set" smaller in proportion. People who have lived in other college towns will admit that no where are the students on better terms with the inhabitants than here...