Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual dinner given to the judges and debaters after the University debate will this year be held in a private club. The relation between the club and the Debating Council is purely a business one, established because the club was able to offer better accommodations at a smaller price than the Union, where these dinners have always been held. The Union was founded largely to counteract the influence and necessity of private clubs. It seems strange that the Union, with all its superior facilities, cannot serve its purpose in this particular instance. Such a condition should be investigated and remedied...
...entered the office of President of the University, Harvard College graduated one hundred and eleven men, and the other departments combined, one hundred and sixty-four; when he retired in 1909, a thousand degrees were granted each Commencement. His activity in public and educational service since then we know better. It is the half a lifetime devoted to the University from its presidential chair that should be recalled and honored on his eightieth birthday...
...instance, men who teach English should be credited by the English Department; men who do general educational work should be given recognition in the Educational Department; and likewise in Social Ethics, in Economics and in Sociology. Mr. Davis declared that the efforts of several hundred Harvard students to better social conditions should not go unrecognized by the Faculty...
...prospects for a good track team this spring are as good, if not better than usual. The fourteen "H" men in College, together with the stars of the 1916 Freshman team will form a nucleus that should make a creditable showing against Yale, and again run up a high score in the Intercollegiates. Of the point winners in the meet against Yale last year the University lost, by graduation, only five, representing twenty points, out of the total of forty-eight scored. Yale apparently fared better, for the six point winners who graduated tallied only twenty of the fifty...
...Cable '13, who graduated last year was the Intercollegiate champion hammer-thrower for two years in succession. The team will have a hard time to find a weight man to take his place. The team, however, is better off in this event than Yale, which has no point winner back. Last year H. S. Sturgis '15 won third place in the Yale meet, H. D. Burch '14 and S. B. Pennock '15 are also good...