Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Better heed the sign of crimson warning...
...brief, men should realize that the vacation actually brings the examinations ten days nearer than the calendar indicates. After the recess, an immediate resumption of hard study is difficult. A moderate degree of industry now will save much worry and sleep in January, and at the same time insure better marks...
...then the order of the University crew has remained unchanged. A most encouraging and consistent improvement has followed the work of the crew all through the season, with the possible exception of one or two off days, and it is fair to say that the University crew today is better than last year's eight was at this time. The four veterans of the Yale race last June are rowing one behind the other in the waist of the boat. Although new to the starboard side, Captain Cutler has filled in well at 7, and should be as effective next...
...nothing could have been better timed than the warning there voiced. As Mr. Haughton said, "The present situation is very serious for the Harvard team ... in that up to the present we have continued to win our games by a safe margin, while Yale has twice been defeated and once tied." Judging from comparative scores and an impartial consideration of the two teams at present, clearly Harvard's greatest enemy at New Haven will be over confidence...
What we do need, however, and the more of it the better, is the spirit of support which characterized the mass meeting last evening, a spirit which cannot help making the team feel that the whole College is behind it, trying, as it succeeded in doing in 1908, to make the coaches "feel the success vibrations on the "sidelines." This sort of spirit is bound to win at New Haven...