Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominate for Saint of the Year Thomas Mann, expatriated German patriot and humane genius; or better still, Eduard Benes, who fought with gallantry and tenacity the fight of his own people and, in the long run, of all the peoples of the world...
...Better luck attended the limelight performance of Voit Gilmore, 20, chairman of the nonpartisan, undergraduate Carolina Political Union (and president of his Chi Psi chapter). He began working last summer to get the foremost U. S. political orator of the age down to Chapel Hill to address his group, which prides itself on paying no honorariums and on cross-questioning its speakers when they are through. His college president, Dr. Frank Porter Graham, Senators Josiah Bailey and Bob Reynolds, Representative Bob Doughton and officials of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at Winston-Salem (where Voit Gilmore lives) all helped...
...agitation for a higher grade of books in Stillman has been smouldering for several years, and this year a group of Sophomores called it to the attention of the Student Council in a specific demand for "reading of a better sort than detective stories...
...stimulate artificially that mystical thing, "House spirit," but rather to provide a weekly occasion when tutors, their associates, and several favored students can join for a few hours of dinner and common room talk. To the six or seven undergraduates invited it gives the opportunity of becoming better acquainted with their superiors, of participating in stimulating discussion of an academic sort. Conceived as such, the dinner is another fine tool for the machine of liberal education. Therefore the present obstacle to its application and extension should be removed by eliminating the restriction now imposed on the majority...
...lead, and if this comes to pass, then a large proportion of the refugees will be given both their daily needs and a fair opportunity to assimilate themselves into American life and to become useful citizens. Everyone recognizes that the refugees must be provided for, but is it not better to do it by intelligent planning than by carting them over here and dumping them in the slums? Education for them is not a luxury, but a necessity. Gene Keith...