Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge defeated Yorkshire by two runs and four wickets. The score was: Yorkshire, first innings, 172; second innings, 163.- The University, first innings, 164; second innings, I 73 for six wickets. Up to now, Cambridge has done much better work than Oxford, and it is the general opinion that the wearers of the Light Blue will dine next month at Lord...
...requires both faculty and courage, when you have discovered your mistake, to drop your tools and start again. But if the all the doctors, lawyers and ministers who can never get on in their professions would get out and find other fields of labor it would be infinitely better for themselves and the country. A living stream of new applicants for public favor and support pours through the portals of the schools of medicine, law, and theology. It is estimated that doctors are thus manufactured in such large numbers that they form one to every three hundred inhabitants. At first...
...college yard has never looked better than it does now. The smooth lawns, the well-kept walks, the noble elms and the venerable old buildings form a beautiful picture. The college authorities have met with the greatest success in their efforts to beautify the yard, and certainly deserve the heartiest thanks of the University...
...composed of iron beams covered with terra cotta bricks, thus making the building as nearly as possible fireproof. There will be about fifteen suites on each floor, and the building will be four stories high above the street. Five entries, instead of the usual two or three, give a better chance for the inmates to escape in case of fire than in any of the other college buildings. Almost all the suites extend completely through the building as in Holworthy, thus giving a view both of the street and of Holmes Field. The drains will be largely outside the building...
...There is little use in urging the students "to make their choice with the utmost care" on the ground that "any plan of study deliberately made and adhered to" will be profitable. If the faculty wish to help us to follow their own advice, they would do better to give notice of an intended change at least two years beforehand. Otherwise the Elective Pamphlet will continue to be the disappointing puzzle that it is at present...