Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...emphasizing the importance of the cross-country team. As the CRIMSON pointed out a few days ago, success in cross-country running goes hand in hand with success in the long track races. The action of the Athletic Committee will stimulate interest in fall running and make for a better showing on the track next spring...
...number of other shifts were made in the second and third eights, and the University four. The first crew remained the same as last week. All four crews rowed down to the basin, the first being the only one to go beyond the Harvard Bridge. The first eight showed better form than at any previous time this year. Coming up-stream especially, the shell was very steady and the blade-work excellent. Of the other two crews, the third made the better showing. After a few days, morning practice will begin for the individual...
...upon which these regulations are based assumes that preferment to graduates in applying for one seat should offset for the two lower classes the preference shown to graduates in applying for two. The relative numerical strength of the two classes proclaims this exchange unjust. If 1000 undergraduates are given better single seats than graduates, the latter will be moved not more than a section either way. If 3000 graduates apply for two seats apiece, the Freshman who takes a companion will be fortunate if he can tell whether or not the ball is advanced. On this basis alone the lower...
That Harvard is better and more influential because of a strong graduate body is true. On the other hand, the University is undergraduates. Consequently all activities except those of government are made possible and supported by undergraduates. They belong to the men who are still in College. Such conditions do not warrant granting to graduates, whose period for active support is past, privileges not enjoyed by those who create the team...
...that social, service work requires administrative work and forces a man to develop the power to control those with whom he comes in contact, no better practical training for later life...