Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dartmouth will be the opponent of the University baseball team on Soldiers Field this afternoon, the game starting at 3 o'clock. Dartmouth started the season poorly but has recently been playing much better ball. On Monday Dartmouth defeated Tufts 4 to 3, Tuesday the Green was defeated by Holy Cross 1 to 0, and was also defeated earlier in the season by Syracuse 2 to 1. Last year the first game, in which Harvard was leading 1 to 0, was called at the end of the fifth inning on account of rain. Dartmouth won the postponed game...
...national honor and whose memory we shall observe tomorrow. At the exercises in Sanders Theatre Rev. H. G. Spaulding will speak on "Charles Sumner". To hear an account of such a patriot from one who knew him should be historically of great interest to all. To become better acquainted with the ideals for which our forefathers were willing to lay down their lives should be a strong factor toward a deeper appreciation of the duties of American citizenship...
...remark on the editorial page that "the more notorious snap courses are all noticeably low down." The sooner the student body learns from its own experience that choosing a course merely because it is a "snap" is an uninteresting and unpleasant as well as an unprofitable adventure, the better for all concerned...
...lake before lunch, although the water was very rough. In the afternoon both crews went out, the University rowing three miles in one stretch at a slow stroke, spacing out well, with a hard finish. The Freshmen also rowed well. The blade work was good and the boat spaced better than usual. All the men are in good condition...
...mellow ousel have finished fluting in the elm when the corpulent Campaninini of the First Corps Cadets will blare defiance to Terry and all the overbearing horde of monitors. Some pie-pied piper will then draw out in linked sweetness the interminable train of senescent undergraduates from all the better bath-rooms in the Yard. It will be a big time for you, gentle reader,--yes, a very doggy day. Hats and tin cups will be doled out by the Capable Crowd,--a little group of earnest men who have signified their intention of helping in this great work. Also...