Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pity that so much of the verse in this number lacks both substance and form and that ambition to produce fancy work displaces ambition to produce works of art. Better poems are written almost daily in Harvard College than those which appear in this number. A similar comment might be made on the prose, which exhibits nearly everywhere insensibility to fine workmanship...
...overwhelming victory of 39 to 0, Smith Halls won the interdormitory football championship and possession of the Crosby Football Cup for one year by defeating the Standish eleven on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The game was one-sided, due to the greater weight and better team-play of the Smith eleven. Superior generalship and better signals were important factors in the result...
...Freshman association football team in the third game of the season defeated Middlesex at Concord yesterday afternoon by three goals to none. The game was fast and both teams worked well together. The Freshmen showed much better form than earlier in the season and Preston at goal stopped many attempted tallies. Captain Lucas and Myers at back positions did exceptional defensive work while Coulter at forward starred by making two of the goals. Captain Lucas made the other goal. Hagemann played the best game for Middlesex...
...ball and the splendid spirit of the players individually and as a whole. Her wing defense and defense off tackle must improve between now and next Saturday, probably will. Her forward-passing game is not dangerous, and she launches a driving attack from her Minnesota shift formation better qualified for midfield gains than for gains inside her opponent's thirty-five-yard line. Perhaps she can work up her off-tackle slashes so that they will carry farther than they did against Princeton, but if she can repeatedly get Guernsey anywhere from Harvard's forty-yard line...
...Freshman association football team will play Middlesex at Middlesex this afternoon. The Freshman team has improved since its defeat by Andover last week. There is better team work and shooting by the forward line, and the defence is also stronger. Florence at left halfback and Lucas at centre halfback are showing up well in their positions...