Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Butterfield pitched a good game for the Freshmen and had slightly the better of the contest for pitching honors with Field...
...work that was of course mediocre, it also printed a good deal of very exceptional verse by such poets as S. Foster Damon, Robert Hillyer, William Norris, and B. Preston Clark. This was perhaps one of the Advocate's golden ages. But in general, undergraduate writers of verse are better than undergraduate writers of prose, and perhaps always will be; and for that reason the current issue of the Advocate is all the more remarkable...
...weeks Germany may propose to make peace on terms that appear on their face reasonable and moderate. Such an offer might well beguile the Allies into a delusive peace. The peace would be delusive for unless the principle of militarism is destroyed, the promises would be kept no better than those broken in the past. Autonomy of other races would mean their organization for the strengthening of Germany; until she had control of the resources of a population of 200,000,000 for her next war. Such a settlement would be a mere truce pending another strife...
...that this summer's camp will not equal last year's, provided that the Military Science men of this University enrol. They will be the "brains and spinal cord" of the regiment without them discipline and efficient instruction will be impossible. Until we can become officers there is no better task open to us than to teach others what we have learned and thus start them on the road to commissions. The preparatory schools of New England will flock to this camp; it is up to every one of us to do our part in teaching them the few fundamentals...
Dean Academy will be the opponent of the Freshman nine in the latter's sixth game of the season on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. 1921 has the better record of the two aggregations, having won four out of its five engagements, while the visitors have only been able to come out on top in three of its six games...