Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University crew has rowed a trifle smoother this week than last. The second eight has lacked snap at the catch and has also been a bit unsteady. The third crew has been rowing in better form this week than last...
...account of the changes necessitated by illness, the crew is perhaps not so far advanced as at this time last year. The most notable progress took place at the end of last week and on the last two days of this week. Improvement has been towards steadiness and better slide work which has brought about better spacing...
...Better Man" is a serious play in a bowery mission in New York. The leading character is "Easy" Joe, who is a drunkard reformed at the "Bridge Mission." The Governor of the State makes a speech at the Mission, in which he praises brotherly love and help of the unfortunate. Joe claims the Governor as his brother. The latter part of the play is a conflict of the Governor between the dignity of his office and the claim of the drunkard, in which finally the Governor accepts Joe as his brother...
...Better Way," which is the central play of the performance, is an adaptation from "El Afrancesado of Alarcon." It is placed in Padion, Spain at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Garcia, a leading Spanish apothecary, who is suspected of sympathizing with the officers of Napoleon's Army, gives a dinner to them in his apothecary shop. He puts poison in the wine and kills both the officers and himself. The townspeople rush in at the end and then realize his devotion to his country...
...till Thursday, the boat did not go very well; the men made a weak finish and were uncertain on their slides immediately before their catch. Yesterday, however, the boat went better than it has so far this year. The crew rowed down to the New Bridge and back. On the return trip, the men rowed in fairly good form from the New Bridge to the Harvard Bridge but the rest of the way back the rowing fell off considerably...