Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...apply only to those who came here for the purpose of making a living, and not to students, tourists, or lecturers. Mr. Gulick's plan also includes registration for aliens and an educational bureau to teach them the principles and ideals of the United States. As the foreigners become better versed in these ideals, he would lower their registration fee, thus offering an incentive to the aliens to learn our method of living. Professor Gulick closed by saying that when we should accord our yellow brothers satisfactory treatment, we would find that...
...Princeton game, when the acme of hockey was attained, the team seemed unbeatable. Then came a great big slump in the character of play in the McGill and first Yale games. The second Yale game was nothing but fast, aggressive shinny, and finally Saturday, the standard of play was better, but not good enough to defeat the star Princeton seven. The loss of Phillips no doubt had much to do with this defeat, and the injury to Willetts may prove a great handicap; but if the team can pull itself together and recover from its various bruises, injuries and reverses...
Pickernell proved the star of the evening when he made a plunge of 62 feet, ten feet better than Starbuck who was second. In the 100-yard race Eisele of Cornell won handily by about five yards...
Professor S. L. Gulich, of Doshisha University, Japan, will speak at a joint meeting of the Social Politics and Cosmopolitan Clubs at 7 Holyoke House this evening at 8 o'clock. Professor Gulich is at present in America for the purpose of securing a better general understanding of the Japanese Guestion. He will speak on "The relation between the United States and Japan," and especially on the question of Japan immigration...
...second off the new record of 3 minutes, 6 1-5 seconds made an hour previous by the University team in the race with Cornell. The Harvard men however, were not pressed to make their time, and although the B. A. A. team seems to be a little better, the race on February 28 should be the closest as well as the fastest relay racing in years...