Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...semi-finals on Friday afternoon, Averill, Harvard, defeated Stuart, Princeton, 5 up 4 to play, and Pyne, Princeton, defeated Hitchcock, Yale, 1 up. On Saturday Pyne had the better of in the morning round up to the turn, when he was two up. At the first tee Averill drove the better ball, but over-pitched on his mashie shot falling in the trap bunker beyond the green. It cost him two to get out of the bunker, and Pyne won the hole, 5-7. Averill won the second hole, 3-4, through Pyne's indifferent putting. Both men made...
...long punt, but the Freshmen forwards were slow in getting down the field, and King for St. Mark's succeeded in rushing through the whole Freshmen team for a touchdown. St. Mark's missed a difficult try for the goal. During the rest of the half the Freshmen played better, and succeeded in advancing the ball to St. Mark's fifteen-yard line before time was called...
...high stroke. The best event of the regatta was the race of the eight-oared shells. In the first heat the Sophomores were barely able to win from the Freshmen by half a length. The second heat, between the Law School and the Junior Weld crews was a better rowed race and was almost as close. As the boats neared the finish there was a length of open water between them, with the Law School in the lead. But the Juniors spurted strongly and crossed the line lapping the leading crew a quarter of a length. The final heat between...
...Freshman eleven defeated the Worcester Academy team at Worcester on Saturday, by the score of 11 to 0. The Freshmen had a slight advantage in weight, and their back-field played together better than that of Worcester. Fumbling was their worst fault. Worcester played a stubborn, defensive game, allowing but one touchdown in each half. Their high tackling, however, allowed the Freshman backs to gain many times after they should have been stopped...
...skillfully blended description and exposition. "At the Edge of the Moor," by Apthorp Gould Fuller '00, exemplifies the evil of disingenuousness of expression. With the evident purpose of outdoing Stevenson, the writer has produced a story which sounds strained and selfconscious. Although pertinent and novel expressions are usually better than conventional ones, yet he uses phrases which are not only inapt but objectionable in their unconventionality...