Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scholar does not see fit to become a business man, he can help the business world by seeing it in the proper light, and by helping the public to a better grasp of the situation, through clean criticism...
...game and the shooting for the baskets was extermely ragged. In the second practice, however, various changes in the lineup caused a marked improvement, and the second team, which was made up of good players, failed to score on the first team. The men handled themselves and the ball better, and the passing was more accurate. In shooting for baskets the work was still poor. At present the officials are penalizing very heavily for fouls in order to eliminate rough play...
...fosters in a man an intense loyalty to an ideal, his college. He works hard every day for a period of two months. He is working for his ideal, the honor of his college and in that struggle he forgets himself and his selfish interests. What would be a better developer of character than this? We are all acquainted with the man, who with selfish interest in his own affairs works on and cares for nothing, his college included, except his pencil and ruler, and books. Such men are well trained intellectually, but they possess but two dimensions. They have...
...human work which supplies a pressing need. The justification of the drama must be found in its power to soften the brutal instincts which lie hidden in every man. Acting today is becoming specialized, and the range of actors is growing smaller. The actors of the past generation were better in Shakespearian roles than modern actors: but today plays are perfectly mounted and the actors excel in showing the problems of every day life. In modern plays there is less outward motion and more exposition of human consciousness, less noise and more feeling. This new field has been opened...
...second game of the interclass series will be played between the Sophomores and the Freshmen in the Gymnasium this evening at 7.30 o'clock. All the members of the Sophomore team were on the Freshman squad last year, and consequently they have developed better team play than the Freshmen. About 30 men reported for the Freshman team, and although the team has some good individual players its team work is still rather weak...