Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton, N. J., May 7.--By a decision of two judges to one the Princeton freshman negative debating team defeated the Yale 1918 affirmative team in McCosh Hall tonight. Princeton was given the decision on both argument and form; one judge, however, considered the Yale arguments better...
...rumoured disagreement of the judges, the provision for a single judge is a necessary if belated change. With it should go more care in the selection of the judge and his assistant than has always been the case. A close finish may occur at any time and it is better to be prepared for it before than to argue about it afterward...
...summer in a law office is generally wasted; it may be spent better in a business office. Attending courts is good, as is anything bringing one into contact with all classes of people...
...averages of the University baseball players, completed through the Virginia game, show that three men are batting at .300 or better, with two others within striking distance of that mark. By his phenomenal hitting in the Virginia game, R. Harte '17, raised his mark over a hundred points, and now leads the list with an average of .409. C. E. Brickley '15, is still among the high men with an average of .318, and R. T. Gannett '15 has been hitting consistently over the .300 mark...
...Senior class succeeded in extracting the sum of $241 from the Freshmen yesterday afternoon on the steps of the Widener Library, $28 better than last year...