Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...admire you and I like you the better for feeling and talking that...
...most evident conclusion to be drawn from the meet is that the Freshman entries were in general far better than the University runners, as may be judged by the results in points. Of the 50 points won by the University men, 25 or exactly half, went to C. G. Krogness, captain of the 1921 track squad, E. O. Gourdin '21 and G. G. Monks '21 combined. The outstanding point-makers of the University squad were D. J. Duggan '20, P. E. Stevenson '20, H. D. Corning '20 and Captain H. D. Costigan '20 in the runs; and J. F. Linder...
...those who have not done so sign up at once. Delay profits nothing. The sooner there is a large enrolment, the better will the authorities be able to plan for a more complete and efficient course of training...
...plans must be revised, augmented, redrawn to a more gigantic scale. We have a million and a half men in service and in training. We are calling out eight hundred thousand more in the second draft. But even that will be not enough. We can do better. We can give more...
...those who had hoped for better things, the events of the past weeks have been dark ones upon the Western Front. Where yesterday the battle raged around Cambrai and far east of the Somme, the opposing armies are now aligned upon the Messines Ridge. That the tide of battle has meant a serious reversal for the Allies, no explanation or expression of hope may minimize. The Allies have been driven back and even now are struggling at a point beyond which the German hordes may possibly pour to the sea. The war has been indefinitely prolonged, and its final verdict...