Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...four sections unreserved. By doing this, the base-ball management will escape the maledictions of the students and will still have enough in its treasury to buy its blazers, bate and balls. The action of the management on Saturday was simply outrageous, and it is to be hoped that better arrangements may be made for the next game...
Lind's hand, which was hurt so badly in a practice game a week ago is much better, but it is doubtful whether he will be able to play again this year...
...third game in the class series for the lacrosse championship resulted in a victory for the freshmen by a score of 1 to 0. The game was well played throughout, and Ninety-one showed up better than on any previous occasion. For the first time in the series the sides were even. Soon after play began the ball was forced toward Ninety-one's goal, but the defence played a strong game, and Morton had no work to do until the first half was nearly over, when he made some good stops. The time of the second half was shortened...
...poor that 29 runs were made on 18 base hits. The final score stood 29 to 5. With this disastrous game ended the chain of light defeats which Yale experienced from Harvard. Up to the end of '73 there can be no doubt that the Harvard nines were uniformly better than the Yale nines. Harvard's advantage lay in the number of excellent clubs in and near Boston, from whom she learned a scientific knowledge of the game. This is shown by her uniform steadiness and team work, a feature noticeably absent from Yale nines...
With the close of the present college year will end necessarily the connection of a large number of men with the Glee Club. Eighty-eight has been a very musical class, and nowhere has this been better shown than in the fact that during the past year the first bass part of the Glee Club has been composed entirely of seniors. Honore, Ewald, Mason, Saxe and Swarts have made us a very strong part. These men, with G. H. Carpenter in the second bass, Howard, Balch, Pope and B. Carpenter in the second tenor, and Lund and Barry...