Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reaction at Harvard to the President's address was skeptical. A spokesman for the Harvard Vietnam Moratorium Committee said the speech would do nothing to dampen anti-war sentiment. "What Nixon has tried to show is that there is a silent majority behind him. We know better...
...then the Indians ran right over a rushing defense that was supposed to be one of the best in the nation. Yale had been allowing less than 100 yards each game on the ground, but Dartmouth proved to be a bit better than earlier opposition and gained 322 yards...
Cornell did not have one of its better days Saturday, winning by only seven points over Columbia. The most interesting part of that game was probably the continuing development of the Lions' running back, 152-pound John Sefcik. He gained 128 yards, only 22 yards short of Ed Marinaro's output Saturday...
...Monahan, the punter, averaged little better than 33 yards a kick, and since the majority of them were designed to release Penn from trouble, the Crimson was consistently regaining possession near midfield...
Brewster said the role of the university is one of advocating social change and aiding in the design of institutions "better suited to meet community needs than we ourselves are." He said that it was "high time" for the "public agencies of the society to pull up their socks so that the universities can go back to work and try to break the bottlenecks of medical science, help manpower, and help deliver a basic design...