Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lynn Fosse team on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. This game will be the second one of the season for the Freshmen. The Freshmen have improved considerably since their defeat by the Celtic Club of Waltham last Saturday, and the forward line especially is developing better teamwork. The game today should be close, for Lynn Fosse was beaten by the University soccer team on March 8 by the score...
...Thieves" was written while its author was in College, being published by a New York magazine. It was dramatized last fall. The play deals with the adventures of two thieves, one rich, the other poor, and ends with the conversion of the former to a better life by the poor man. The situations are very funny and the plot lends itself to an enjoyable comedy...
...annual meeting of the Phillips Brooks House Association will be held in connection with a dinner in the Union on Wednesday, April 9. The main object in thus combining the business meeting with the Association dinner is to afford the undergraduates an opportunity to become better acquainted with the various activities of Brooks House. As a part of the program the members of the cabinet will present their reports in such a way as to give a complete summary of the work of the past year, bringing in all the constituent societies. Special effort has been made...
...fact that renewed interest has been taken in gymnastics during the past year and to the number of men who reported for the team, those who will enter the intercollegiates today from Harvard are in far better condition than teams in the past have been. Practice has been held regularly throughout the winter in the Hemenway Gymnasium, with volunteer coaching by Mr. J. E. Wolf, formerly a member of the Princeton gymnastic team, at present athletic instructor at Watertown High School, and E. G. W. Ruge 1L., formerly a member of the Yale gymnastic team...
...Otis Skinner does the part of Hajj, played abroad by Mr. Oscar Asche, and Miss. Rita Jolivet that of the beggar's daughter Marriah originated by Miss Lily Brayton. It is difficult to suppose that either character could have been better portrayed in the first production than in the present. Mr. Skinner is particularly fitted through long and thorough training to give, as indeed he does, a living Hajj, the Beggar. The staging of the play evidently offered many very difficult problems but these have been met skilfully and effectively; especially is this the case in the scene...