Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team is weakest in the middle distance events, especially the quarter. Ireland, who ran second in the dual meet with the University Freshmen last year, is the best of the 440 men. Prospects in the half-mile are better, however, for Rolfe, Ireland and Cooper, who have been running on Yale's championship long distance relay team, are all good men in this event...
...most ambitious. There are, besides, two brief sketches by A. D. Fay and Thomas Wharton, and two pieces of critical writing. This is all well enough, but falls short of the vigor and originality of which undergraduates have frequently shown themselves capable. They are still capable of something better than the average contents of the professedly "literary" undergraduate periodicals at Harvard. It is often said that a coalition of existing periodicals would bring this to pass. Is it not possible that some improved process of "digging out" the best might be devised...
...Society has an enviable reputation for producing good plays. What better praise can be given than that this year's show is the best yet? PAUL BLACKMUR...
...single critical contribution, Mr. Bullock's article on "Rupert Brooke," has the special interests of first-hand testimony about the personality of the poet. Apart from a little petulance at the beginning, which for the moment gets the better of his taste, Mr. Bullock writes with force and discrimination...
...some human sense, some insight into his fellow-men and some grasp on all those processes whereby our complex society is carried on. He must know history, politics, economics. He must be sensitive to civic and economic wrong. He must feel the drive of our common life forward toward better institutions and relations...