Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...valuable work: 1. It has had charge of the date-book of lectures and meetings, and of the calendar in the CRIMSON; 2. It has assisted territorial clubs in College to co-operate with their home Harvard clubs; 3. It has aided registered clubs; 4. It has established better accounting for clubs; 5. It has edited the University register. Chairman Sibley has a report which will be submitted later, taking up these things more in detail...
...movement to establish closer relations between the University and the Boston Opera House, whereby students may better enjoy the advantages of the Opera, has been started under the leadership of E. F. Hanfstaengl '09. Mr. Hanfstaengl's idea is to make the connection between Harvard and the Opera one such as exists in Germany, in which university students are enabled to attend the Opera at reduced rates. The value of the Opera in rounding out a man's general education is universally recognized, and such a plan would be advantageous to both parties...
...first game of its season, tied with the General Electric Company Club of Lynn on Soldiers Field last Saturday afternoon. Each team scored two goals, and the teams were as evenly matched as the result indicates. The University team played the harder rushing game, although the Lynn men were better individually. The condition of the field, ankle-deep with mud, retarded the play to a great extent, and this, coupled with the absence of Captain Byng, Barron and Francke from the game was a distinct handicap...
...printed inexpensively and distributed where they will do the most good. Men of national standing in medicine and surgery have spoken many words of wisdom in these Sunday talks; that the people appreciate them was seen in the overflowing attendance at Dr. Joel Goldthwaite's lecture last Sunday. No better health text-book for the layman haws over been written than could be made up from these inspiring talks...
...four free public lectures on "Types of the Modern Drama," in the Lecture Hall of the Boston Public Library on Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock. The first lecture will be on Wednesday. The purpose of these lectures is to arouse a keener interest among theatre-goers in the better kinds of contemporary plays, and to sharpen the appreciation of the art of the theatre...