Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regret that so clever a letter could not have been written in a better cause. LEWIS S. GANNETT 2G. CECIL H. SMITH '15 ARTHUR FISHER...
Wallace, the University centre is a much better defensive man than White, the man who fills in at the pivot position on the Yale team, but in all other phases of the game the two men are nearly of like ability. White, however, passes the ball end over end a method which requires unlimited practice in order to properly judge the angle at which the back will receive the ball, while Wallace uses the safer and more certain spiral pass...
Francke and Knowles will do the greater part of the line-plunging for each team. Knowles is the more experienced, and in addition has a remarkable faculty for sending off long passes; but Francke, although somewhat crude in his work, has tremendous power, and is the better defensive player...
...brought to its greatest efficiency. The men who go down every afternoon to be used as the human dummies and charging machines for perfecting the first team players, do so with no thought of thanks or reward. They do it that the University eleven may be the better trained to win. The honor of the University rests with them almost as much as with those who reap the glory...
...class of 1918, young in the ideals of this University, there can be no better time of explaining what "Harvard" means. Harvard stands for moral, spiritual, and intellectual independence in the formation of one's convictions, and, above all, for the fearless maintenance of those convictions. The call to duty of the class of 1918 is not to be based on attendance at Chapel; it is to be based on the appeal to each individual member of the class to live up to his own honest convictions, be those convictions what they...