Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unable to catch together and lost the hard drive on the finish, which was hurried. This made them force the recovery and lose control of their bodies, and so fail to keep the boat on an even keel. The last few days, however, have seen steady improvement. With a better proportion and a harder finish the boat showed good power and travelled well between strokes. On several stretches yesterday most of the faults were overcome and the boat went very well, although the bow men were a little late in taking the stroke off 7 and stroke. The temporary absence...
...played in the game last year. Thus far the team has not shown anything but mediocre calibre, tieing Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in a no-score game and being defeated last Saturday by the Springfield Training School, 6 to 3. In the latter game Williams out-rushed Springfield and showed better defensive play than its opponents, holding them to two first downs. Springfield's score was the direct result of an intercepted forward pass. The team has been coached by Fred Daly, captain of the Yale team last year, and is well versed in the fundamentals of the game. Nagle...
...Soldiers Field every morning between 10.30 and 12.30 o'clock for the remainder of the fall season to coach candidates for the University and Freshman track teams. This morning practice has been adopted in order that the coaches may have more time to give the men individual coaching under better weather conditions for track work, and, also, because of the use of the Stadium in the afternoon for secret football practice...
...part of the undergraduates a hearth welcome. Even though we may not have all seen him before, many of us feel that we have come to know him s we have read through the pages of his "American Commonwealth." Because we feel that he understands us as a nation better than all but a very few of our own countrymen, we realize what an opportunity it is to hear him this evening upon our national problems of forty years ago and today...
...success of "The Product of the Mill" will depend on the effect of the children and their speeches. They are much better written than anyof the other dialogues in the piece. There is a pathetic humor running through them that may prove deeply touching. Even in the manuscript, the picture of suffering childhood in the mill is vivid. On these elements of humanness the popular appeal of the play must rest, much more than upon the somewhat commonplace story that it tells.--Boston Transcript