Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shirted second Varsity basketball team composed of Dick Sullivan, Dick Rabenold, Homer Peabody, Sam White, and Fran Simpson threw up a tight defense and did better than hold their own in a heated half-hour scrimmage against Captain Lupien's first team as Coach Wes Fesler sent his hoopmen into their second week of practice...
Charley Lutz is ready for a bigger and better year than ever from his forward spot, and his running mate, Chet Legg, carries plenty of scoring punch. Hill Humes is well ahead in the scrap for the pivot post and Lupe Lupien is a fixture as one of the guards. The veteran Fred Hockel has held down the other guard position ever since the first practice session, and he has done a fine job filling the shoes of last year's Captain Vern Struck...
...excellent. A blatant loudspeaker, an overdose of fire and brimstone, insecure craftsmanship in the delivery of certain vital lines, and a lack of restraint in the comedy detract somewhat from the performances of Glenn Wilson as Faust and Basil Burwell as Mephistopheles, but Faust's struggle between his better self and his lost for power is nonetheless arresting...
...growing importance of special agencies and bureaus in legislative circles in Washington. "With the concentration of departmental interests in such newly-emphasized subjects as social insurance, wages and hours legislation, utilities, and labor security," he said, "commissions have vastly increased the value they are able to bring to better legislation...
...down strike against post-season games; this year its Freshman team was incensed at the lackadaisical manner in which their tuition was cared for. Now the college wants to go simon-pure. At Notre Dame an enterprising student recently issued a pronouncing gazeteer so that the public might become better acquainted with the far-flung "fighting Irish." But Mr. Hutchins says that only a handful of students are in big-time college football; Notre Dame combats this by acquiring plenty of players. They used eighty-eight men in one game, four Irish and eighty-four others...