Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...manner of Rhibany, is Ben Lion Trynin's "Rosalie." The truth here to child life, the healthy human interest--even with comedy overdone--are indeed preferable to the usual run of undergraduate smartness and veneer. At the close--beautiful as one finds little Rosalie's roguish kiss--it seems better that the boy should have worshipped from afar unappreciated, as must be so often the case with his like. The success of "Rosalie" once more enforces the lesson to portray the life you know: even "Malbrouck," fancifully conceived and tastefully executed, lacks reality beside it. The author of "Malbrouck...
...symposium is conducted on the question of reducing the length of the University boat race from four miles to three. The opinions of rowing experts, including former crew captains, are given and the unanimous verdict is that the present four-mile course is better for the man and the sport...
...receive a lion's share of attention in the Magazine. In addition to a complete record of all University sports, and the symposium on rowing just referred to, there is a leading article on "Athletics in the Schools," by Dr. J. L. Morse '87, who makes a plea for better supervision of school athletes. He urges that school boys take athletics less seriously and participate i them less strenuously. Dr. Morse, although his conclusions about the harmful effects of athletic specialization are undoubtedly logical, will probably find that his words fall on deaf ears as long...
...article, "Mr. Higginson and the Boston Orchestra," which is a review of a book by M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87, "The Boston Symphony Orchestra; an historical sketch," Owen Wister '82 shows a much better sense of the fitness of things than he did in his stroy Philosophy 4, by which he is known, and I fear unfavorably, to most undergraduates. His style is intimate and lively and his enjoyment of the book in question, and of books and music in general so keen and so apparent that we can almost forgive him for his college story...
...contestants, judges, and members of the University gymnastic team will be entertained at dinner by the H. A. A. at the Varsity Club at 5.30 o'clock. This will give the men a chance to become better acquainted and discuss arrangements for the meet next year...