Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college undergraduate. "When you get in business you are going to come into contact with the unions. Most people are prejudiced against the unions and it is your place while you are young to begin to size up the situation. Now you are unprejudiced and therefore you have a better opportunity of making up your mind. Attend the labor meetings held in Boston on Sunday afternoons...
...present competition will consist mainly of the gathering and writing up of University news and a small amount of office work will also be required of each candidate. The work offers an excellent opportunity for those who wish to build up their acquaintance in the University, and no better chance of learning the various activities in Cambridge can be secured. This competition is the only one limited to Sophomores and hence it is a distinct advantage for the Class of 1919 to come out in the present race...
...needed so that a third team can be formed. The first game is still three weeks off, which gives plenty of chance for the new candidates to learn the game. For the last few days twenty minute scrimmages have been the rule, and the team is slowly rounding into better shape...
With much this same reason desire for complete proficiency from actual military experience, Harvard far exceeded any other college in enrolment at Plattsburg. Here was learned the essentials of leadership under army conditions and in the service of the Federal Government--clearly a far better training for officers than a course in military science...
During the next four weeks is the time for men who think they can do anything in the pole vault, high jump, or broad jump to report for practice. New men will be given better and more individual coaching now than in the spring, for both Mr. Clark and Dr. Morrill are at the field every afternoon and there are fewer regular track...