Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cosmopolitan Clubs" will be under the auspices of the Yale Cosmopolitan Club and has been definitely dated for the three days, December 27-29 The purpose of the convention is simply an enlargement upon that of the separate clubs in the various colleges which aim to promote a better understanding based on friendship between men of different nationalities...
Captain Ian Hay Beith, better known under the pen-name Ian Hay as the author of "The First Hundred Thousand," will lecture in Sanders Theatre next Monday afternoon, December 11, at 4 o'clock, under the auspices of the Cambridge Surgical Dressing Committee, Captain Beith has been sent to this country by the British government to explain Britain's part in the war. He has already lectured on his experiences, both in the training camp at Aldershot and at the front, at both Yale and Princeton...
...people in America do realize that a nation's welfare both in war and peace depends very closely on the science and industry of chemistry, and will in the future unquestionably be more and more dependent on it. Therefore, how could a man do bigger work or render a better service to his country than in doing something to strengthen this all-important branch of industry in which our nation is so weak? To this work Pennock gave everything. He was working without a guiding hand in the no man's land of science and Industry; he had to overcome...
...clubs and the homes of undergraduate activities; and a calendar of the year's events made particularly up-to-date by the incorporation of the baseball schedule, hitherto unpublished. The feature of the 1915-16 book of indexing a man with the pages on which his name appears is better done this year...
...first week of hockey practice finds the University team weak on the offence and with a defence that has not had occasion to prove its ability. Better shooting seems necessary, for in yesterday's practice the first string line continually carried the puck up to team F's goal only to make inaccurate shots. The goal tending of B. Wells '19 kept the score down to a single goal by G. A. Percy...