Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be made an assistant business manager in his Junior year and will then compete with the other two assistant managers for the managership. This is a good chance for all members of the class of 1918 to gain a good business experience and at the same time become better acquainted with the University and students...
...goes) arrestingly written. We prefer Mr. C. G. Paulding's short editorial on the late General Huerta to his longer article. Brief, bitter, and to the point, it reveals, like so much of the writer's other work, a personality which it were far better to agree with comfortably than combat. The only story in the issue--Mr. Dos Passos' "Cardinal's Grapes"--is a light trifle as the author intends it to be. If the latter added more humor to his other gifts,--the reaction to color, feeling for childhood, and sense of atmosphere,--he would be a better...
Altogether this is a rather striking issue. We could not wish the Monthly better than the happy equipoise between the fanciful lightness of the last number and the vigorous thinking of the February...
...Freshmen. Cummings got the lead at the start and the 1919 men increased their advantage to some twenty yards. Rollins, running fifth, cut that in two, and Biddle, the Seniors' eighth man, passed Casey and gave the 1916 team a commanding lead. The time was 7 minutes 12 seconds, better than that of the Juniors by 2 1-5 seconds. The Juniors and the Sophomores were close together in the first part of this race, but the last 1917 runners opened up a big lead, winning in 7 minutes 14 2-5 seconds...
These men will be in a much better position to compete for the permanent appointments when they are made, irrespective of their previous training, than those who did not attend the school, in as much as they will be enabled to follow more thoroughly the system of instruction carried out in the Regiment...