Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...record of the class of 1918, on the other hand, was much better. The enrolment of this class, which entered the University in 1914, was 705. Of the total number of grades received by this class, 37.1 per cent. were marks of distinction, A or B; 43 per cent. C, 15 1-2 per cent. D, and 3.7 per cent, absolute failure...
From statistics of Harvard track records taken by the CRIMSON, it appears that the physical condition of the average man is better today than forty years ago. Of course running shoes, board and cinder tracks, take-off boards for the broad-jump, poles for the pole-vault, and the system of coaching have all been improved and necessarily have a bearing upon these records. Yet, by merely glancing at them, it may be seen that even grammar school boys of today could compete with the University record holders of 1875. Moreover, these records run on such a poor average that...
...been able to make only small improvements. In the present case, however, these are so many that the 1916 Album seems much the best that has yet been issued. Mechanically, it is larger than its predecessors by twenty-three pages, it is bound in real leather, is better bound than its predecessors, and surpasses them in the execution of both pictures and text. The amount of attention, in fact, that has been given to minor matters of arrangement, mechanical execution, and proofreading is extraordinary. For example, the pictures of buildings are arranged as they would be met in a walk...
Everyone feels sincerely grateful to Captain Cordier, who has given up practically his entire time to the work of the Regiment. Each individual can show this appreciation in no better way than by being in his place at roll call tomorrow...
...batting and fielding averages, completed through the Brown game, prove the team much better in both branches of baseball than it was at the same date last year. The team batting average, which in 1915 was .226, is now .239, and the fielding, formerly .944, is .956. Individual averages are proportionately higher. R. Harte '17, the heaviest hitter on the team, has 31 points more than last spring. Abbot, who batted only .140, has risen from ninth in the list to tie for fourth place among the regulars with Mahan, his present average being .277. C. L. Harrison...