Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Through the kindness of friends of the University, it has been made possible to pay part of the expenses of students needing assistance at the Plattsburg military camps next summer. There is still opportunity for men interested to benefit by this. The sooner applications are made, the better chance there is of receiving this pecuniary aid. Applications may be made at any time before the spring recess at Regimental Headquarters or applicants may see any of the Committee on Plattsburg: F. Lund '18, chairman, W. Blanchard '16, L. A. Morgan...
...floating cakes, the river was clear of ice. The Freshman crews will change their lockers from Newell to Weld Boat Club today, and in the future all Freshman crews will row from this club. This is a decided innovation in crew management, but it is thought that better results will be obtained by keeping all Freshman crews in Weld Boat Club, and having only the University crews use Newell...
...Within the Tides" means in speaking of the author's "usual superlative style." Apparently the reviewer does not mean, as one might at first think, that Mr. Conrad usually writes in superlatives. Nor is statement of fact always correct. The first article, which makes a plea for a better and more accurate acquaintance with what it calls "Harvard's past," speaks of "five-dollar" fines, it would seem in the seventeenth century, and of University Hall as an eighteenth-century dining-room, though it was not built till early in the nineteenth century. And did Daniel Webster over...
...What is the matter with the Forum?" a few of its friends who remember its better days are asking. Is it completely deleted, or has it merely crept into a safe hole until the winter blows over. If the latter, then it is high time--if one may mix the metaphor--for the prince, in the person of the new President of the Speakers' Club, to awaken the sleeping beauty with a kiss. A Californian in the Law School recently wrote to his Alumni Fortnightly that Harvard students take a keener interest in public affairs than do western students. Undoubtedly...
...meeting tonight to discuss the question of compulsory membership in the Union, the Student Council cannot do better than to call for a vote of the undergraduates by classes...