Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Several of the parts were taken in a way that recalled the best performances of previous years. Mr. Gifford as the barber-count, Mr. Rice as Sir Humphrey Noddy, and Mr. Loring as Trim, one could hardly have wished better; while Mr. Harvard and Mr. Fenn also acted with spirit and intelligence. Wildish had serious defects in voice and delivery, and was unfortunately reluctant to face anyone he addressed...
...parts, those of the two Fantasts by Mr. Wetherell and Mr. Zinsser were perhaps even funnier than Shadwell intended. The rendering of those female characters that are serious or sentimental is a physical impossibility for adult males. The sooner the aid of Radcliffe is called in for heroines the better...
...success of those teams against their rivals. He worked hard and successfully to stimulate interest in athletic sport among students who need such sport for their bodily and mental health and have no thought of belonging to an organized team. In nearly all ways he left a much better athletic situation than he found. Fred Wadsworth Moore, A.B. '93, was appointed as Mr. Garcelon's successor...
...interscholastic track meet and tennis championships held under the auspices of the University have become established institutions. The benefits to both sides have long been recognized. The schools are afforded better facilities and brought into contact with the University and from this latter benefit the University also derives profit as well as from the pleasure of having the students of the schools, competitors and partisans alike, among us. The closer organization of college and school has many advantages ramifying into all parts of the system...
...holding of the Interscholastic Gymnastic Meet in Hemenway this evening but continues a well credited policy, and in addition to this gives merited encouragement to a less prominent branch of athletics. We wish the facilities at our disposal were better in this regard and the need for a new gymnasium is no more keenly felt than when we attempt to extend hospitality in this form to the preparatory schools. Such as we have we gladly offer, hoping better for the near future...