Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stories. "They don't end as they ought to, or, perhaps better, as do those I am accustomed to read," says the Victorian. "Yours is very definite, very cleverly told, Mr. Burlingame, but why deal with the exceptional Boston John, especially if he is a snob and a cad, when there are so many Johns of Boston who are straight and clean and brave? The gentleman of the first person, as well as he of the third, whom Mr. Barlow conducts through a Parisian evening in a study of the contrast between Basque impetuosity and English simplicity, pay a very...
...fourteen games played since 1901 Harvard has won ten and lost four. This year's team has come thus far through the season with a list of four victories and but one defeat; while Yale has lost three of her four games played. In spite of the better showing, however, the University team will have its hands full in winning tonight's game. Being the first one of the series, it is extremely important that it should be a victory, and if the team wins it will be the result of the hardest kind of fighting. The expert coaching which...
...schedule next fall. This does not mean, however, that the break in the long series of contests between the two Universities will be permanent, for it was merely decided upon for the one year. The substitution of an easier game will enable the players to be in a better condition for the Yale game than they would be with a series of hard contests immediately before...
...book-plates engraved by the late Edwin Davis French. The prints, about one hundred and seventy-five in number, are a loan to the Museum from Mr. la Rose's collection; and, as they are all artist's proofs, they will afford the amateur of book-plates a better opportunity of studying Mr. French's work than has ever been offered since the Grolier Club's exhibition several years ago. Of special local interest will be the plates which French engraved for the Harvard Library and for several of the Harvard undergraduate clubs. The selection of prints embraces the various...
...third act, on the whole very much better than the first, MacFarland's cry of "Sing Sing!"--so tragically does Mr. Craig give the line--takes one out of the farcical atmosphere and brings the curtain down with a cold thud...