Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from those purple shades where the pleasant but inconsequent art of canning the "best literary product of the University" has mildly flourished. It has tried to creep out before, only to be thrust back by a surprised and somewhat upset graduate board. The present venture seems to combine in better, certainly less vulnerable, degree the qualities of life and literature. The October number seeks to view and criticize the world within and without, yet with the decorum long considered proper to the University...
...will be interspersed with forward, double and delayed passes. This does not mean that fundamentals of the leading schools of football will be thrown to the winds to be replaced by haphazard throwing about of the ball. On the contrary, the first games showed that the big elevens are better grounded at this period of the year in the essentials of sound football than in several seasons, and this despite the heavy handicap of the weather during the preliminary practice season...
Tonight in Phillips Brooks House, the class will be addressed by upper classmen at a more informal, but no less valuable, reception. Every Freshman should attend, for no better opportunity of meeting his classmates and hearing timely words on topics of collegiate importance will be presented this year...
...think defensive kicking was never done any better than last year by Law, of Princeton, just as I think there never has been any better attacking kicker than Haughton, of Harvard, and his pupils...
...them to think. Part of this system also has been the knitting together of loose strands that have always been woven through Harvard football. The rest of the system is familiar to men who have played under Haughton. But the keystone of the system is punting. And the keystone, better judges than I believe to be right...