Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon. In the first set Rand's failure to pass Stellwagen at the net accounted for his defeat. Although the score of the second set was the same as the first, the games were closer and Rand seemed better able to adapt himself to his opponent's play. Stellwagen ran the score of the next set up to 5-2, Rand being puzzled by his twisting serve. Stellwagen took the first two points on Rand's serve, but the latter braced, a well-placed shot, and a hard smash giving him the game. Rand then...
...French manner. After all, it does not seem so tremendous a jump from the mediaeval to the days of the Christian martyrs. By the unreality of the first, we are quite prepared for the product of Shaw's fertile imagination. He calls it a "fable play." He might better have called it a "fabulous entertainment." If one goes in glum seriousness to see a play, if one wants to imbibe the practical philosophy of a deep thinker, if one wants anything else but to hear well-spiced dialogue for its own sake or for the sake of the whims...
...Boston Y. M. C. A. pool is noted to be much cleaner, and is easily accessible from Harvard square. It would be better for one really desirous of a swim to spend the extra time in getting there in order to insure himself of reasonably clean conditions. P. D. WOODBRIDGE...
...situation is no better with the freshmen, as less than 15 have been reporting daily for practice. It is officially rumored that unless more men appear for crew the race with Yale at New Haven on November 12 may have to be cancelled...
...Passos presents us with two stories, a slam at the proverbial American abroad, not at all pleasant, and the history of a school boy's study hour. The latter pleases better, partly because it contains more of the author's delightful description, partly because of the ephemeral subject, which suits...