Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Predictions on the outcome of a baseball game are energies misdirected. The result of the first game of the Yale series today is as uncertain as anything could be. Yale has played excellent baseball in its recent games and has proved a better hitting team throughout the season than the University nine. Since the second Brown game, Harvard has played remarkable ball except against Holy Cross last Saturday, when neither team lived up to its reputation and Harvard won the game on their opponents' errors...
...game promises to be a pitchers' battle, and that being the case, the chances are slightly in favor of the University team, as Harvard's pitching staff is in better shape than Yale's. Hartford's work in the Cornell game was above criticism and there is no reason why it cannot be repeated. Coupled with a little of the batting and base-running ability shown in the Dartmouth game, such pitching will win any game...
...Catholic Club has been further facilitated this year by a gift from the Archbishop of Boston of the double house situated at 32 and 34 Mt. Auburn street, known as Newman House. Early in the year the attendance at the club meetings was slim; but as the House became better known and more comfortably furnished, a much larger attendance has been the rule, averaging about...
...text will be repeated in their lives and their noblest possibilities will be sacrificed. There can be no nobler ambition than, in the words of John Stuart Mill, "so to live that Christ would approve of one's life." There is no higher type of manhood, there is no better, more useful, more satisfying way of life, there is no greater joy, than to be at one in spirit and purpose with him and with the great company of loyal and loving souls who gratefully acknowledge his inspiration and guidance and to set before ourselves any meaner ideal...
...play its second game with Holy Cross on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The first game, which took place at Worcester May 2, was very closely contested, and Holy Cross won by a 3 to 2 score. In that game Hicks faced Dowd, who did slightly better work than his opponent. The University team made six hits against eight for Holy Cross, but nevertheless batted hard most of the time...