Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...type of the immigrant today are as good as those of any immigrants who have come to America. There is now a distinct need for the immigrant just as there has always been, and therefore we do not need an literacy test to cut down numbers. Further, we have better-means of assimilating the immigrant today than ever before and such a test is not needed to solve our assimilation problem...
...prize of $100 is offered by the Women's Educational and Industrial Union for a play to be acted next season by the Children's Players, an association of non-professional actors. This association, which has been formed to interest children in better forms of amusement than cheap shows, will present the accepted play at one of the Boston theatres. It will be under the direction of S. J. Hume 1G., who has been very successful in staging performances of the "47 Workshop...
...this late date, the decision is certainly a sound one, but for another year the matter deserves careful consideration. While the four-oared event is a little more spectacular, because more extraordinary, and gives opportunity for lighter men to win their "H's," a second eight-oared crew affords better training for a University four-mile race. The great advantage of the four-oared race and the one that should make it stand is its tendency away from specialization...
...Pennsylvania, when he was at Mercersburg Academy. Willcox let M. B. Orr, the interscholastic champion, lead the race for the first 220 yards, and then suddenly passed the latter by a beautiful burst of speed. From then on Orr repeatedly tried to overtake Willcox, but the latter proved the better, finishing about two yards ahead of the Exeter...
Frye was in the box for the University team, and he showed even better form than heretofore. He kept the visitors under complete control throughout the contest as is shown by the fact that only one man got as far as second base. Four worthless hits and no bases on balls made the sum total of Frye's charity...