Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...title as the most national university in the United States. Cornell has students from every last one of the states of the Union, one territory, and four dependencies. Since it so happens that Harvard lacks Arizona from its student membership this year, Cornell can go Harvard just this one better, even thought it is evident that this index of universality is by no means an adequate or even an important test of an institution's national character. But considering the situation roughly, it still appears probable that Cornell could safely maintain title among all our national universities as the institution...
...Robinson has been chosen quarterback because he is so sure in handling punts, kicking drop-kicks and in the selection of his plays. It is not necessary to state why Casey was picked. There is no more elusive, shifty, open-field runner, no player with a better stiff-arm in the 'Big Three...
...have considered only that of the receiver; but there is also that of the received. Each should aim to please the other by self-sacrifice and thoughtfulness. The guest, no less than the host, is under obligation at any friendly party. For several years past Yale has been a better host and a kindlier visitor than Harvard; we have been the considerate half of all the parties--both those at New Haven and those at Cambridge. But frankly we are becoming weary of always making you happy, to our own distress and at our own cost. We feel that...
...Polo Grounds the West Point men again triumphed over the Annapolis men. The Army has had the winning habit since 1913. Before that the Navy had had rather the better of the contests. . . . . . The midshipmen must manage, of course, to get back in their old football form as Yale has done, but Yale had suffered more from Harvard than Annapolis has yet suffered from West Point, and there is plenty of time. Congratulations to the Army and to the Yale men, but not a word of commiseration for Harvard and the Navy. There were two fair contests and the best...
...clear outlining of the characters; "The Second Hungarian Rhapsody," by Douglas C. Wendell, well written but thin in plot; and "A Fable of Death," in which L. K. Garrison '19 attempts a form full of pit-falls, into most of which he stumbles. The Advocate used to do better in fiction. W. A. Norris '18 and Robert Cutler '16 contribute the verse. Mr. Norris's two sonnets have some fine sonorous phrases, in the making of which he is sometimes reduced into loosening his grasp on his idea. Instances of this are the eighth line of "The Little Cares...