Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Drama League and elaborating a pen-picture of the sentry, are symptomatic of the writer who seeks to hide in phraseology a poverty of ideas. The number proves worth while mainly in the diverting episodic sketch by Mr. Nathan, certainly in lighter vein, but well characterized and constructed with better sense of dramatic values than the same writer's dialogue, "The Coward." In this the blindness of Peggy is forced, and Harry's use of brandy too like the conclusion of "The Cradle Snatcher" in a recent McClure's. The setting is described with more elaboration than a reader cares...
...experience achieved in Mr. Hillyer's "Night on the Mountain." The latter, though defective in rhyme, fails chiefly in the introduction of "death," and the last line, which escapes anticlimax by false hyperbole. The psychology of Tapolo, "contented" with a clear night while praying for rain, defies analysis. Much better is the heavily alliterative rendering from Tolstoi by Mr. Garland. Its last lines, however, leave the point insufficiently clear, while such phraseology as "wended their way" and "dalliance" mars the prevailing tasteful simplicity of diction...
...cannot properly be said that the whole amount was spent on athletics. The building of temporary seats for spectators, while a necessary expense, which should be paid for by those who occupy the seats, is not fairly chargeable to athletic expenses. The saving in football expenses is due to better methods in distributing supplies and in the conduct of the training table, and also to the co-operation of P. D. Haughton '99, who has helped in this...
...rumored last evening that Samuel Ramsden, better known as Rammy, had sold out his Buffet Lunch on Massachusetts avenue to the Waldorf syndicate. The vice-president of the syndicate refused, however, to directly confirm the rumor...
...muscles of the body, is enjoyable, and for the majority of the season out-of-doors. It offers a chance for service to the class and the University. Of all the major sports it holds forth to the novice the best chance for development and success, a chance oftentimes better than that of the man with training who is handicapped by the wrong ways he has learned and must unlearn. The opportunity, because of disregard now, draws dangerously near an obligation, especially in a class which has started as well as 1917, and has a record to uphold. Irrespective...