Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton has decided to exclude graduate students from the University debating teams, thereby giving undergraduates a better chance of making the teams than if they had to compete against older men. In this move, Princeton has acted without regard to Harvard, where graduates are still eligible, though the plan of excluding them has been spoken of. It is hoped that Harvard. Yale, and Princeton can come to an agreement on the subject at the conference later in the year...
...expected Freshman canvass is withheld pending the outcome of the committee's efforts to secure possession of the money already promised; for so long as the three upper classes continue to treat the matter of payment in this fashion, the committee cannot feel that the Freshmen would respond with better spirit...
...object of these camps is to give young men the opportunity for a short course in military training in order that they may be better fitted to discharge their military duty to their country should it ever stand in need of their service while at the same time offering men the chance of spending their summer in a healthful, inexpensive...
...nightly for the past week. The swimming team is expected to be at least 50 per cent, stronger than in 1912-13, because of the addition of several men who were stars on the Freshman team. Captain E. J. D. Cross, who holds two intercollegiate sprint records, is showing better form than at the beginning of last season
...Yale; it is little consolation to say that hers was a game fight against a better team. Harvard, however, appreciates the fairness of her play, her fierce, though vain, attempts to square old scores, and above all the fighting spirit with which the team and its supporters accepted defeat...