Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college confers honor upon the undergraduate author of the best piece of writing submitted in competition each year. Here at Harvard the honor for literary excellence takes the well-known form of the Bowdoin prize. At Yale there is a parallel prize. Why should not a few of the better compositions for both these prizes be submitted to a board of impartial judges to decide which, according to its opinion, most deserved the reward for intercollegiate superiority in English composition...
...left centre this season, will be the only University forward eligible again next year. However Hopkins and Sortwell, of this year's victorious Freshman team, should fit in wide left end and right end, respectively. For the remaining forward position, R. C. Gilford '12, if eligible, will undoubtedly prove better than any of the substitutes from this year's University squad. Of the latter, the most promising are J. S. Childs '12, F. H. Palmer '13, and E. P. Pierce...
...truly amazing to what an extent undergraduate interest in a minor sport depends on the success of the team which represents it. For example, the University fencing team for five or six years ranked very low in the intercollegiate meet. Last year it was better, and so far this year it has done remarkable well; as a result the number of men who fence has increased from a dozen in 1908 to thirty...
...very teams of which we speak would be immensely helped if every man that went out for them did so because he liked the game and wished to play it well. And the men who went our would be more steady in their pursuit of the object, appreciating better its true value to themselves...
...Freshman crew which was made for the first time Monday was tried again yesterday. The change consists of moving Gardiner from 3 to 4, displacing Converse: shifting Reynolds from bow to 3; and putting C. Curtis in Reynolds's place as bow. The new order worked much better yesterday than the day before, the boat being steadier, and the men more in union...