Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Macionis will meet in the 220, either in the trial heats, or in the finals, held this evening at 8:30 o'clock. Their meeting promises to be the closest event of the whole meet, as Hutter's best time is but four-tenths of a second better than Kendall...
...objective is the National Collegiate A. A. meet. Ohio State, Michigan, and other "big-time" swimming teams will be entered. Hal's boys stand an excellent chance of taking team honors . . . Pop Cummin is unofficially the world's fastest backstroker in the 50, having been clocked under 27 seconds--better than Kiefer and Van de Weghe . . . Greg Jameson '37 has cracked the world mark in the breastroke in practice, although he probably won't admit it. He may train for the A. A. U. meets this or next year and try to get his performance officially recognized
...which Harvard can look back are those pertaining to its famous teachers--including such men as Dean Briggs, Kitty, Copey, and Whitehead. Recent educational trends have diverted emphasis from teaching for teaching's sake into channels of research; and although this shift has undoubtedly tended to produce more and better scholars, it has at the same time caused a dearth of "legendary" teachers. Granted that research is the basic element in the teacher's equipment, nevertheless it is wise to have one or two men in every department who will be regarded by students as orators, as a kind...
Still in the same linear method, but with constantly growing understanding of its limits, are the early Dutchmen, Zeeman and van Velde, who introduced the water of canals and the texture of buildings. Much better is Jacob Ruysdael, who brought into etching his mastery of tree forms and fields. Pure landscape, however, in line etching, seems finally attained by Claude Lorrain...
Three Freshmen occupied the better part of an hour timing themselves by the large clock on the wall to see who could hold his breath the longest. The winner gave his time as 2 minutes 35 seconds...