Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent article in the Illustrated, a Sophomore declares that the defeat of the Freshman football team at New Haven this year was due to the failure of Freshman interdormitory athletics. The team lost because the Yale freshmen had better football material than the Harvard Freshmen. The heaviest man in the Freshman line weighed barely 190 pounds, while the average of the Yale line from tackle to tackle was well over 200 pounds. Harvard's best backfield men were all injured early in the game. These two contributing factors have, unfortunately, been overlooked by the Sophomore who wrote the article...
...fast St. Paul's School seven at Concord, N. H., last Saturday afternoon. The score would undoubtedly have been larger had it not been for the excellent work of Stanton at goal who made a number of difficult stops. The school team showed much greater speed and possessed a better knowledge of the fine points of the game. The second team was unable to take advantage of several chances to score and St. Paul's goal was seldom in danger. Brown and Lombard played the best game for the second team and Conover, Ingalls and Henriques starred for St. Paul...
...prospects for the University fencing team seem, on the whole, rather better than last year's. Since shortly after the opening of College the squad of 40 men has been holding regular practice under the coaching of M. Leslabay, but the team has not as yet been decided upon. A practice meet was recently held with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, being the first of a series of such matches planned for the future. The final schedule for the University team has not yet been settled upon, but the tentative list contains matches with Bowdoin, Springfield...
...seems too bad that when so distinguished a visitor as M. Brieux comes to the University, that the only reception given him is closed to all but the members of two clubs. A general public reception would be a better way of welcoming and honoring...
...board--or of the candidates!--have been the goal. Whether or not consciously formulated, there is little doubt that the guiding principle of the Illustrated has been to attract and please readers. The field has been a wide and an open one. That the Illustrated is ever better filling this field the present issue bears witness. From whatever angle one views it there is no doubt of the attractiveness of the December number...