Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University lacrosse team won two of the four games played on its annual southern trip. In the first game with the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn, the skill and experience of the older men was more than a match for the better condition of the University players, although Harvard clearly outplayed its opponents in the second half. The score ended 4 to 2 in favor of the Crescents...
...last soccer practice of the season was held yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. The men have been working for the past four weeks under Coach Burgess, who has been in charge for several years. He has done much to convert the better men of the Freshman men into material for the regular soccer team...
After Lynn had scored two runs in their half of the first inning, the Freshmen started in to better this by making three runs. Percy was safe on Murphy's error, and he was advanced to second by Murray's bunt along the first base line. Knowles received a base on balls and both reached home on Enwright's long three-base hit. Enwright scored later on Shepperd's fumble of Boyden's hit. In the sixth the Freshmen again took the lead. After Walker had grounded out, Finn to Shepperd, Anthony drew a base on balls. He went...
...playing better baseball the Freshman team defeated Brookline High School, 5 to 2 on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. T. H. Enwright '18 did good work at the bat, lining out a clean three base hit in the last of the sixth inning and later scoring on Boyden's tap to second. R. M. Loring '18 pitched excellent ball, striking out nine men in eight innings...
...country. France does not believe in war and the leaders would willingly stop fighting but the Germans feel that they are striving for liberty and have turned the war into a kind of revolution with the annexing of Belgium and France as their ultimate goal, because those countries are better suited to the needs of the Germans than Germany itself...