Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...better plated sleeve button can be found than ours, which was made to cider and is fully guaranteed...
...better plated sleeve button can be found than ours, which was made to order and is fully guaranteed...
...about time that the follies of the first term should be cast aside and some work accomplished. The class of '90 made an unenviable reputation in base-ball, and if '91 is trying to follow that illustrious example she can do no better than continue on her present foolish course. The members of the freshman class can deal with the matter after the defeats have come, but now the whole responsibility lies on those who are fit candidates for the team...
...down to work after a certain fashion, our prospects seem hardly so good as they did when it was only a matter of conjecture who would try for the team. Mercur, '88, will probably pitch, with King, '89, as change pitcher, though some think King will show up in better form than Mercur. Who will catch it is impossible to say, and Harvard is greatly envied in having two catchers such as Campbell and Henshaw. But of course it is much to early too make any definite forecasts about the nine, and it will be impossible to know...
...Turning Point" is a fairly good story, though one might wish that a theme that has been so well worn in the fiction of the modern and the ancient world and which our college papers have hitherto avoided as though by a better instinct, would be left to the treatment of master hands only. They might possibly be expected to show this episode in a new light. The melodramatic dens ex machina in the shape of a "golden star" is a bit wearying...