Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University fencing team closed its season last Saturday night by winning fourth place in the intercollegiate bouts held in New York. While not as successful as was hoped for earlier in the year, this season has resulted considerably better than for several years. The University has been defeated only twice out of nine matches, once by the Navy and another time by Yale; but in the semifinals the University easily defeated Yale and Bowdoin, by winning eighteen out of twenty-one matches. The team that has represented the University during the greater part of the season and in both...
...criticism and correction. The results were astonishing. On the first assignment seventy-nine per cent. failed to write even fair English, and only three per cent. were above mediocrity. Other tests showed similar results. A distorted circular letter was given with the request to revise or re-write in better form. Less than one-half the class obtained passing grades, while fifty-five per cent. received less than...
...disjointed matter in separate compartments. These disadvantages will be overcome in so far as it is possible by bringing the School to that state in which every instructor is thoroughly acquainted with the instruction of all of his colleagues and with that knowledge will conduct his own courses to better advantage. The more closely this state can be approximated, the sooner will the first-year student be enabled to overcome the difficulty which confronts every beginner in the law--the lack of legal back ground. This will not only be a great aid to the student but it will also...
...plays deserve support. They are amateur only in the fact that the club members stage, manage and act the plays without compensation. As examples of the modern drama, written and produced by students of it, they are much better dramatic investments than the conventional two-dollar play, of the modern box-office school. If they had lurid play bills to herald their coming; and a record of 300 nights on Broadway behind them, the theatre sheep would flock to see them and pronounce them capital...
...paciflists argued that the camps are unnecessary and harmful in a nation which is striving to maintain peace, and that the time spent in them could be better used in constructive work...