Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Graduate Committee of the Harvard Dramatic Club consisting of Professor G. P. Baker '87, Mr. Winthrop Ames '95, and Mr. H. T. Parker of the Boston Transcript have chosen the following one-act plays for the annual spring performance: "The Better Way" by Paul Mariett '11, "Marvelous Bentham" by Hermann Hagedorn '07, "The New Age" by David Carb '08, and "The Better Man" by T. H. Guild...
...expect to report for spring football practice and who are not exercising in some way at present, are urged to report for association football practice to develop their wind and to get in better condition. Spring practice will be very serious and of much more importance this year than in past years, on account of the changes in the rules...
...raising funds among members of Harvard University for a swimming pool, to be placed in the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., has caused not a little comment. It is evidently the feeling among some men, that, inasmuch as we ourselves lack a swimming pool, our efforts might much better be directed toward securing a pool for Harvard...
...Arthur Clare forbids his daughter, Millicent, to marry the lover of her childhood, Raymond Mounchensey because the latter has had a reversal of fortune and picks out Frank Jerningham as a better match. Jerningham is, however, a true friend of Raymond and, when Millicent is sent to a convent to forget her old love, aids Mounchensey in his attempts to steal the girl away. The merry Devil confounds the pursuing father in the forest and thus helps the young couple to escape. Forgiveness and marriage bring the episode to a close. Though the devil hardly comes into contact with...
...misfortune, rather than as a liberation. It need hardly be said that this feeling is not now prevalent among the undergraduates. The chief reason why so many lectures strike the average student as useless is that he finds in his lecture notes little or nothing that is not better stated in books of reference. Often his notes contain serious errors, due to haste or confusion of mind; more often still they omit the most important facts. There can be no doubt that facts can be learned far more thoroughly and accurately from printed than from spoken words. Criticism, comment...