Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second team forwards showed more speed and dash than their opponents, and seemed to work better together. Palmer scored the first goal, and Pierce the second...
...Miss Dorothy Donnelly, Mr. John Barrymore and an even company, it is such a treat as seldom comes the way of theatre-goers. Mr. Barrymore in particular by his impersonation of the discarded well-to-do New Yorker added no little to his reputation as an actor. No better production has been given a play in Boston this season; and with the possible exception of the Irish Players we have had no better acting...
This year for the first time the Student Council publishes the Register, having purchased the rights for publication last June. It is better that the hand-book should be in charge of a quasi-official body, if only by way of guaranteeing a straight-forward and consistent editorial policy. There are sundry new and useful items in this year's edition, among which I notice especially the geographical list of students. The convenience of this source of information appealed to me at once; for the very first thing to which I happened to turn was the list of students from...
...greatest drop in any department appears in the figures of the Summer Schools. Even if this drop were no more than offset by an equal increase in the number of students working in the University proper through the winter, the change would certainly be considered as one for the better. As it is, the increase in winter students does much more than merely offset this decrease of summer students...
...feature of the University hockey practice in the Arena last evening was a fast 20-minute scrimmage between the first and second teams which was won by the latter, 2 to 1. As a whole the second team men played better hockey than their opponents and were able to keep play away from their own goal most of the time. The first team wings again showed the fault of carrying the puck too far down before passing, and their shots, as well as those of the centres, were poor...