Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman track team defeated Phillips Andover at Andover on Saturday afternoon by the score of 78 to 18. That Andover did not make a better showing is due to the fact that several members of the team had conditions which pre vented them from competing. The Freshman team performed excellently and up to the highest expectation of the coaches...
...cent of the members received grade A, whereas in others only 4 or 5 per cent are A men. How, then, are the records of men graded according of different standards to be compared in the award of distinction? Nominally, one man may make a scholarship record far better than another, yet the latter may have done work o equally good quality, or in some cases even better. Consequently there has developed the wide-spread conviction that marks are a false measure of ability and merit...
...following quotation from the editorial column of the New York Evening Post is part of an article by President Fitch on "Religious Life at Harvard." "The first and universal characteristic of the Harvard undergraduate," he finds, "is a dread of seeming to appear better than he is." As a consequence, "he often appears worse than he is, lest you should think him to be what he is not. Prayer meetings repel him, and yet the daily morning service in Application Chapel is attended by one hundred of the fifteen hundred who could be expected to attend it. In what ordinary...
...more that the Union can become a center for Harvard life the better is it for the University. Through its dinning halls, its reading and committee rooms, and its library, it has become a place where many of us go to eat, to read, to see our friends, to hear prominent men speak on prominent subjects. Within its walls, too, are the Athletic Office, the Advocate Sanctum, and the CRIMSON, so that all of us are in one way or another brought into close connection with...
...above is an outline subject to reconsideration and change, but it gives an accurate account of the improvements being actively considered for a greater and better Harvard square...