Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prospects for both second and class crews are not as bright, as last year. In fact, the Sophomore crew has beaten the second and appears to be the better balanced of the two. Practice will be held for both crews this morning, and the race will start this afternoon at 5 o'clock. This is the first time that a class crew has attained a standard which warranted their entrance in the American Henley, and the champions are expected to make a good showing in this regatta...
...game saw another shift in the University line-up. Reed has been displaced by M. B. Phillips '15, and the change seems for the better. In each of the last few games Reed has shown up rather poorly, for his weakness at the bat has been followed by weakness in fielding. Phillips failed to hit safely, but his fielding was perfect...
...Wavering Paternalism" is interesting and provocative. It makes us think, and it moves us to reply. The author has a lot of good ideas, though he suggests no constructive plan of reform. One regrets that he feels it necessary to crouch under a pseudonym: we should like it better if he signed his name, better still if he would stand on his feet in that Forum which he scorns and meet his opponents face to face. For his tone is sneering, and some of his statements are debatable. There are many who would like to take up his accusation...
...book this year, in the language of the circus poster, is "newer, bigger and better than ever," and the committee which edited it deserves the congratulations and thanks of the Senior class...
...attention of the members of 1915 is called to the fact that the Senior Album will be placed on sale Monday morning at 10 o'clock, just one week earlier than the appearance of last year's Album. The 1915 book is bigger and better than ever before, having a considerably larger number of individual photographs and a more detailed account of the Senior's College activities. The price of the Album is $6.00 and may be purchased at the following places: Notman's, Leavitt & Peirce's and Matthews...