Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have to furnish a competent air fleet, if the country is to have one at all. "Harvard and the American Wars," by Mr. Batchelder, gives us some interesting statistics and an amusing anecdote. The subject is worthy of a more comprehensive piece of work. Mr. Davis tells of impending better days for Harvard tennis with clearness and evident enthusiasm, and the notice of the Associated Harvard Clubs celebration fills half a page. It may be news to somebody. But we are glad to find a picture of Merrill S. Gaunt, who died in France early this month, after doing splendid...
This set of examinations has been established, not in order to place an additional burden upon candidates for the A.B., but for the purpose of securing better correlation of the student's work, encouraging better methods of study, and furnishing a more adequate test of real power and attainment. To this end students are being assigned special tutors, who will guide men in their respective fields of study, assist them in co-ordinating the knowledge derived from different courses, and stimulate in them the reading habit...
...take a few failures to make it evident that the plan is a serious effort to obtain better and more thorough work. Those men, who in choosing their concentration groups, are looking simply for six easy courses, had better choose some other field than Group...
...outlook for the team in the intercollegiate matches during the coming season is brighter than ever. The most prominent teams which the University will face in the regular intercollegiate schedule will be Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Leland Stanford. Much better results are anticipated than last year from the matches with Princeton and Cornell, owing to the strength of the present material, and the chances for a clean slate in the intercollegiates are excellent...
...University baseball team opened the 1916 season by taking a brilliant 1-0 victory from the World's Champion Red Sox. The game was not a gift from magnanimous professionals; the Crimson players simply played better ball. The offensive work of the two nines was about on a par, but in the work in the field the University was decidedly superior, playing without error and pulling off three sensational double plays, the last of which effectually nipped the Red Sox' ninth inning rally and ended the game...