Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Score for Brown. Brown ran up the largest first game score in many years when they defeated Rhode Island States 38 to 0. The playing of the victors was smooth and consistent and they were held for downs but once throughout the contest. The University of Virginia by showing better team-work and knowledge of the fundamentals beat Randolph-Macon...
...Speakers' Club has moved from its former quarters at 36 Quincy street and is now located at 39 Holyoke street, the building occupied last year by the Western Club. The new building, although somewhat smaller, is much better adapted to the needs of the club and is more easily accessible than the old quarters...
...growth and influence of the Law School, however, came under the regime of President Eliot and Dean Langdell, when the case system was evolved,-the system now in use by most law schools in this country. A recent noted investigator from Vienna expressed the opinion that students were probably better prepared in the University for the actual practice of their profession than anywhere wlse in the world. Since Langdell took control in 1871, the Law School has to its credit not only the evolution of the case system, but also the creation of an academic, non-practising group of teachers...
...Library, naturally in the lime light at this time, receives most instructive discussion at the hands of Professor Coolidge. One finishes a perusal of his article with a better understanding of the peculiar nature of a great scholar's library and some insight into the problems of administration with which the management has to struggle. While Professor Coolidge does not make much of the point, it is nevertheless evident that the Library has suffered from the war, and is in need of gifts to maintain it and enable growth. Mr. Lodge, in "The Meaning of a Great Library," gives...
...last regatta for that prize held on the Thames. The other entrant which had won its way to the finals was the Union Boat Club crew, composed of Harvard graduates. The former eight was coached by Robert F. Herrick '90, the latter by William Haines. A pair better fitted to work in harmony and effectively direct the University's rowing policy could not be found...