Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...efficiency in the final games, regardless of results. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that last year a great Harvard team, playing the poorest of football, was beaten by Cornell. It is the writer's opinion that it will not be difficult for Harvard this year to play a better game against the Ithancans than was shown by the 1915 eleven in that game...
...continually offered. There was no doubt of Cornell's superiority on that October day last year. This season, however, Cornell has shown little to warrant the team's being considered stronger than it was a year ago at this time. Harvard, on the other hand, is capable of playing better football this afternoon than the eleven did last year in its Cornell game...
Harvard surely is better prepared to meet Cornell's style of attack than last October. In addition, Coach, Haughton doubtless allowed this season's team a more versatile equipment of attack than was at hand a year ago. It will be a game in which mistakes cannot be made by either team without effect on the result; but in spite of the fact that Cornell has headed its season to date toward the game with Harvard, the Cambridge team is one the writer feels has the better chance, provided it can play its best football, and play...
...back to 1896, and the good old days of high tariff and low. If Mr. Lazarus seriously believes that the "sole visible and apparently eternal" question of a high tariff is the only one with which the community is concerned in the present campaign, then it were far better for him to take up his political primer, his newspaper or his train of common sense, and learn what confronts the country. Let us hope that there are few men of the requisite age and the supposed discretion for voting, either college trained or not, either Democrats or Republicans, who believe...
...Ford Hall meetings, Tremont Temple addresses, public library meetings, Lowell lectures and Faneuil Hall meetings, not to mention special lectures, crowd into view. The majority of students sleep half of Sunday and loaf the other half, or spend the entire day seeking a mild sort of amusement. How much better to utilize Sunday afternoons and evenings by attending a meeting of lecture of educational value...