Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...want to go both of these one better, and I do not restrict my offer to Harvard. I'll give $1,000 and guarantee a Broadway production. I hope to hear from every college where there is a man who can write a good play. I believe that the best plays of the future are coming from college men, particularly our best comedies, and it is in comedies that I am most interested...
...much touched by the cordial interest of my friends. The prize itself, together with this friendly support, will be a great inspiration and help to better work in the future...
Although the lecture last Friday was well attended, it more often happens that a large number of seats are vacant. If students who so desired were permitted to bring two or three guests each, better audiences would be obtained for lectures, and other interested persons would be given the benefit of them. Nor, since members of the University would be sponsors for their guests, would there be danger of packing the halls with an undesirable element...
...Freshman association football team was defeated by the strong Andover team on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon by the score of 4 goals to 1. The playing of the Freshmen was better than the score indicates, for two of Andover's goals were made on lucky shots. The offensive of the Freshman team showed great improvement. West scored the only goal, while Florence and acting-captain Lucas starred for the Freshmen. Fischer and Captain Thompson made the best showing for the visitors...
Someone has said that it would have been better for Kipling's literary reputation if he had died at the time eighteen years ago when he was so near death's door; it is said that there has never been a moment of buoyant humor in his writing since that time, and hence he has been subjected to much criticism. But few people know, Mr. Bangs said, the cause of that change. Rudyard Kipling had a little daughter to whom he was greatly devoted. When he fell ill, he was unconscious for fifteen days, during which time his daughter...