Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...environment. What are our qualifications? We can read and write the English language with reasonable facility; we are somewhat familiar with the Constitution and political system of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; we have been brought up amidst New England traditions which are apparently better preserved and more revered in the West than in Greater Boston; we think of Massachusetts political questions in the light of Massachusetts history and of the great part which this Commonwealth has played and still ought to play in the affairs of the country. And we are self-supporting...
...those for whom the present was means something more than newspaper thrills, the spectacle presented by the attendance at the memorial service in Appleton Chapel yesterday, was little better than humiliating. That a service to commemorate those of our University who have died on the field should draw barely enough to fill a third of the Chapel is a terrible indictment of the majority of the University. For it shows that our joyous, carefree, trifling population were so occupied with themselves over their little businesses that they failed completely to grasp the significance of the event. They lost...
...recognition of those men who are still engaged in various branches of activity in that war. "If these men see us here now they will appreciate it, for we owe them our gratitude and our respect. They have done a great thing, and we shall be the better for it. This influence which they have had will never perish, but always be remembered by the men of the University...
...doing much with a wide wing attack. She tried not more than three wide runs all day. All failed. But the Red and White's great failing was poor defensive diagnosis and wretched tackling. Harvard's backfield is extraordinary, but just at present the line between ends is much better on attack than on defence. The Crimson backs had a busy afternoon on secondary...
...plays, which Cornell had borrowed from Harvard, and frequently charged the wrong way. But, as pointed out above, the Ithacans were obliged to carry on their defensive line-breaking in their own territory. Harvard played her centre loose on defence, and this helped a lot. Cornell's centre had better have played similarly; but he didn't. Cornell is unquestionably a better team than she showed herself to be Saturday. She received a dose of genuine football class on Saturday, and it unsettled her. As for Harvard, any team that defeats her from now on need have no feeling that...