Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yardlings, coached by H. M. Fish, who is leaving after this season, are very well balanced. Both the attack and defense divide the playing time among four players, and there are two very capable midfield lines. In addition, the freshmen are starting to play better as a unit...
...groups of active revolutionaries on most campuses who have given up on American society and its institutions. Many of these are unimaginative, and not untypically rather fanatical young people whose professed aim is to bring down the "Establishment" as a preliminary to ushering in--they believe--a new and better order of individual freedom and gratification. These groups and their atrocious activities constitute the source of our immediate problem. Though their numbers are not great, they have managed to bring about an incredible amount of disturbance. Yet it is not they, so much as the response they have won from...
...would like the Committee to believe that we are seeking to understand them and to find ways to contain those relatively few individuals who are most immediately responsible. Toward this end we must enlist the cooperation of the many other young who truly want to build a better society. It is for this reason that I urge you to refrain from precipitate legislation at this time, though recognizing your desire to be helpful. Clarification is on the way. Wills and resolve are stiffening. Those who understand learning and care for it are coming together. Academic communities move slowly to defend...
...whole new menagerie has evolved at Penn, though the evolution was compressed into about five years. And this year, the Crimson did no better than break even with the Quakers. Most of the Penn victories were tragic, even humiliating...
Shorter had better luck in the two-mile run, where he beat the Crimson's Dave Potteti and Tim McCloone in a meet record time of 8:50.7. The loss was Pottetti's first this season in the two-mile...