Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cornell crews defeated the University and Freshman crews in two close and hard-fought races in the Basin yesterday afternoon. After being held in the boathouses for two hours by a heavy wind, the university crews started at about quarter of seven o'clock. Harvard had the better of the start, and quickly opened a three-quarter length lead; then when the stroke settled to 40 a minute for Harvard and 36 for Cornell, the University crew held its advantage as far as the Harvard Bridge. There Cornell had begun to creep up and soon passed Harvard, although still rowing...
...articles appealed most to me personally. One was on "Culture or Cramming," in which, under a rather sensational title, Mr. Larrabee gives a very broad-minded, sane, and--again I repeat the word--interesting exposition of his views on the present well-read-ness (or better, if I must coin a word anyhow) ill-read-ness of the average Harvard undergraduate...
...strong Exeter Academy nine, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Freshman seem to have rounded into form as the three victories in the last three games played plainly show. The batting and fielding have both improved remarkably, while the work of the pitchers has been becoming steadily better. Out of nine games played, six have been victories, one a tie and two lost. Two more games remain to be played, Morris Heights High School and Yale 1917, being the opponents on next Wednesday and Saturday respectively...
...Athletic sports held a place very subordinate to all the other life of the college; perhaps it was too much subordinated to other things, but the proportions were much better observed then than at present when the pursuit of athletic sports in many cases would seem to be the chief aim of college life...
...instructors and advanced students in various fields of learning. The value of such an undertaking for the Graduate School does not need to be set forth, but the Press cannot reach its full usefulness without an increase in its resources. Scholarly investigation would also be advanced by the better endowment of the various series of departmental publications, for which the supply of excellent material is frequently in excess of the funds available for printing. Thus the Department of English has just been enabled to begin an important series of Harvard Studies in English, which needs further endowment to place...