Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brought out here in a clear, forcible way, and must be appreciated by every thoughtful reader. As we look back over the field and consider what has been accomplished this fall, we can see how true at times, is that saying, "Things must grow worse before they can be better." In the spring of 1886 affairs were pretty bad, but it needed the athletic defeats of that season and of last year to enable us to comprehend the complete degeneracy of the artificial system which was ruling us. Last June was the culmination of the bad effects of that system...
...given this winter are intended to bring out new men and raise the standard of the men we already have in three events which it is very important for us to win at New York next spring. Those events are chosen partly because in them we need better work, and partly because they admit of practice in the gymnasium as well as on the field. They will accomplish the purpose for which they are held, only if men go in with a will and train for them faithfully. Every athletic man in college ought to feel that it would...
...Harvard that we have special rates for them, and suggest an early sitting if pictures for Xmas are desired. Last year we were obliged to turn people away, but having enlarged the studio, and with increased facilities, we guarantee to all who favor us as good, if not better, work than can be obtained elsewhere.-PACH'S STUDIO, H. Wm. Tupper, Manager and Photographer...
...Harvard that we have special rates for them, and suggest an early sitting if pictures for Xmas are desired. Last year we were obliged to turn people away, but having enlarged the studio, and with increased facilities, we guarantee to all who favor us as good, if not better, work than can be obtained elsewhere.-PACH'S STUDIO, H. Wm. Tupper, Manager and Photographer...
...should have come first and so prevented the disappointment we must feel on comparing the two. "The Message" is scarcely up to the usual standard of the Monthly, though it is a fair bit of verse, and, coming as it does from a new contributor, gives promise of better work in the future...