Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...International Polity Club has taken up the work of organization for the year. The Club is dedicated to the promotion of the thoughtful study and discussion of modern international problems with a view to the definition of an American policy which shall be a contribution to the peace and better government of the world. It believes that international peace may be secured only by a process of continual readjustment, and by the growth of democratic control of governments and foreign policies. It is composed of men of widely varying beliefs and welcomes the fullest expression of opinion. It invites...
...particular contingent with which we were associated has undoubtedly had a better opportunity than any other previous one of showing what stuff it was made of, and it has in no respect fallen short of the standard which Harvard University may properly require of its representatives. Willingness, courage, tireless devotion and team play were here shown, and the whole credit for its success belongs to the members of the Unit...
What we dislike in such ultra-modern programs is that they tend to make education a vocational training instead of a personal cultivation, to make wealth instead of happiness the goal of a child's studies. A man of fifty surely is not a better surveyor or a better electrician for having attended a trade school at sixteen. He has simply started earlier, at the sacrifice of certain kinds of learning which cannot be acquired later. And if one fellow gets his start, others must compete with him in the same way. Thus the old condition will re-assent itself...
...that the Yale team fills the mind with suggestions of immense potential power and knowledge of the game. Its feet, for the first time in several seasons, rest upon the bed-rock of fundamental excellence. No Yale team at any time of any season since 1913 has shown better grasp of the art of bringing a runner to earth. There was a powerful line-charge, which carried the forwards into the path of the ball; the ends smashed in and worked well with the men in the tackle positions. The ball was closely followed, blocking was cleanly done, and, above...
...Tufts players are back in the game again, and should be in better form than ever for the coming game. X-ray plates showed that Captain Wescott's ribs were not fractured as a result of last Saturday's game, and he came out for practice as usual on Monday. In preparation for the game with Princeton Coach Whelan will give the backs a great amount of practice running back punts. The uncertainty with which the backs ran in kicks against the University was one of the greatest weaknesses they showed. This sort of play against Princeton would be fatal...