Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...adopted. The case in hand furnishes an opportunity in this direction. If it is decided, however, to charge the additional $10.00 for continuance in the course after a student is relieved from prescription, it seems only fair that the additional receipts be turned back into the course, so providing better instruction in this, the most fundamental of all subjects...
...summer. This unfortunate tone is not altogether lacking in Mr. Moore's sketch, but it is hardly the dominant one. Some sense of pathos, a good deal of humor, and a striking power of seeing in vivid pictures, make this an uncommonly telling piece of writing. Nobody has better expressed the half-lost feeling which the Yard in July gives the "regular" than has Mr. Moore when he speaks of a group of undergraduates "feeling as if Harvard had suddenly married again, and they were step-children...
...greater benefits that result from rooming there. If the number of applications warrant it, the College will modernize the middle entry of Thayer, which has the additional advantage of a large Living Room, or will turn over to the class any Yard building which may meet the requirements better. The College is ready to do anything to do away with the disadvantages of the present system of allotment and it only remains for the class to deserve its confidence by united action which will reinstate the Senior year as the most enjoyable, democratic, and broad of the whole four...
Lack of experience should not cause any man to hesitate. Come out--the coaches will devote their attention to all, whether experienced or inexperienced. The class of 1913 can certainly produce better material. If the standard of this year's Freshman crew is to equal that of previous years, more promising men must be available, to permit a wider latitude of selection. J. E. WAID...
...University team has shown much improvement in practice within the last few days. The forwards have played together better and have become more aggressive, while the defence has also developed materially into a better understanding of the game. Dartmouth, on the other hand, has shown little ability or power this season, having lost to Princeton by the score of 5 to 1, and to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The seven defeated Bishop's College, Canada, however, in a recent game. Because of the delay in finishing the Boston Arena, the Dartmouth team has only played the one game...