Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...little obvious, and the number of themes upon which it lays unholy hands could have been varied with advantage. But the headlines and memorial notices are alone worth the price of admission; and the editorial is so like what the Transcript actually preaches--it is perhaps rather better written--as to suggest that it was contributed in all seriousness from the Transcript office. Excellent, too, is the life of General Edwards which may, one would hope, suppress the possible appearance of the half-dozen volumes of biography which seem destined to appear in defiance of sweet reasonableness. The Book Page...
...better evidence could be desired of the dangerous growth of infidelity in Harvard than the Lampoon's travesty of the Boston Transcript. If the Lampoon had refused to believe in the usual accuracy of the first chapters of Genesis; if it had asserted that Mr. Phillip Oppenheim could not have written all the novels associated with his name; if it had urged that Ralph Waldo Trine is more spiritually nourishing than Ralph Waldo Emerson; such irreverence might reasonably have been attributed to the youthful extravagance of an epoch of change. But the Lampoon has gone further and has ventured...
...Dartmouth game. Too many students have either forgotten that there are baseball games twice a week or have failed to act on this fact. To remedy this, it is suggested that the schedules recently distributed be considered as engagement cards. Not only will this provide the students with better entertainment than any so far discovered in Boston, but it will have an excellent effect on the morale of the players...
...anyone had any doubts as to the value of support and encouragement to a team it was dispelled during the game with Holy Cross. The playing which, with two innings excepted, was better than it has been, as well as the strong last inning rally was a testimony to the "fight" put into the players by the aggressive anxiety of the crowd...
...Carnival with a leap of six feet, will be a strong contender for that event in the coming meets. Ford, Sweeney, and Parker, in the pole vault, compose a trio all of whom have been clearing the bar at twelve feet. Ford and Sweeney have done even a trifle better than that in practice. Ford, Reche, and Cowles have been clearing twenty feet in the broad jump, Ford having reaped twenty-two feet in a practice trial. With Captain Jim Braden, of the Eli team, putting the short forty-six feet, and with Carter Gale nearly forty-four, Yale should...