Word: betters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This year the prices of college books are lower even, than they were last year; yet better made purchases have enabled the Society to register a gain of profit...
...special request we reprint an article describing the provisions which have been made by New York and Boston graduates, through the football management, for a challenge cup for kicking. It is proposed to make every effort to train better backs for the eleven, and the challenge cup is offered by these graduates, all of whom are deeply interested, as an extra inducement to all men in the University who consider themselves at all likely to become good football kickers...
...between the contestants, J. L. Dodge, '91, and P. Marquand, '89. The first round was very nearly even. Dodge seemed to have a slight advantage in the second. The third round was blow for blow again, and neither man guarded as well as before. Dodge again sparred rather the better, but the bout was so close that the referee decided another round of two minutes necessary. Both men were tired, and rained blows on each other's faces. Dodge got in several undercuts and seemed to have the best of it, but the referee called for another round after...
...third concert by the Kneisel Quartette takes place this evening in Sever 11. In all previous concerts by this organization here, Mr. Kneisel has met with flattering receptions and has succeeded in pleasing all classes equally well in the selection and rendering of his programs. There can be no better foundation for a musical career-and for those less interested in the art, no pleasanter way of spending an hour and a half-than in hearing these masterpieces of Beethoven, Mozart and other composers. The stringed quartette the highest and purest form of instrumental music. We venture once more...
President Eliots idea, one with which many will agree, is that a tuition ought to be charged in the high and normal schools, and the money so received directed to securing better teachers and more thorough instruction. If this plan should be carried out it is thought that not only would young men be able to come to college, and go into business earlier, but that the practice of "jumping college" would be put a stop to, which means that a large proportion of our business men would receive a much fuller and more complete education...