Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Connected with this instruction is a training camp proposition, and it is ultimately hoped that combined camps, made up of Reserve Officers' Training Units from one or more institutions, will take part; thus offering opportunities for better and more advanced field training...
...greatest factors in the awakening of the American people to the need of adequate military and naval preparedness has been the work of the National Security League. This league has conducted a widespread advertising campaign showing the weakness of our national defence. There are few better ways in which one can show his patriotism than by joining the League. Membership blanks have been placed at Leavitt & Peirce's and at the Headquarters of the Harvard Flying Corps, 1280 Massachusetts avenue. HARCOURT AMORY, JR., '16. ROBERT F. HERRICK...
...both Camp and College will play their parts. Such schemes cannot be improvised in a day, but meanwhile all who are able should be strongly urged to turn their faces towards Plattsburg if they can possibly spare the time. A patriotic duty calls them, and they will come back better men from what they will learn there. PROF. R. M. JOHNSTON
Though you have but crossed the threshold, you are so much better prepared to carry on the task of manhood service than are those who have been less fortunate, less inspired, than yourselves; and your preparation will mean, in time, that you will count as greater factors in avoiding war, or lesser sufferers if it should come...
...discouraging. But to think that students, of all people, should read day by day the narrative of the epoch-making events now occurring in Europe without knowing or caring what it meant, is most appalling, for it shows that they have not yet learned how to read. It is better not to read at all than to read without any effort at understanding, for this habit is not only a waste of time, but destructive to the intellect. These students may, indeed must, know how to read books, but reading newspapers is a different art. The first thing to learn...