Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hand again, and the acquisition of Wanamaker has strengthened the line considerably. Saltonstall will probably play the other wing or centre, with Bikes who is slower on his skates than in former days, but makes up for that deficiency with the stick and by his headwork. Phillips looks better than ever, always skillful in handling his stick, while he also seems to have developed more skill in skating...
Then is it not a much cheaper and better form of preparedness to teach every interested man the rudiments of military science, so that he in time of need can quickly in turn train green recruits? For --and I speak from experience--if a few of our violent jingoists as well as a few of our rabid pacifists could be induced to spend a summer at Plattsburg, they would on the one hand have impressed upon them the awful horror of real war, and on the other, the only true means by which this calamity can be avoided...
...training, not only greatly facilitates the development of effective officers from those men who have already had some military practice, but it makes it possible for even the totally inexperienced to aspire to higher rank. Men who are really interested in making soldiers out of themselves can find no better supplement to the regular military work than attending this special "non-com." class...
...urge the need of preparedness against a specific or unknown potential enemy, we have fallen into the European habit of thought. If we are right in that Europe has been right, Germany has been right. Indeed, there is not a European country that has not had a better reason for preparedness than the United States. If we are to profit by the fate of certain unprepared countries," however, we can do it only by imitating France and Germany...
...schools took part. In the opening address, Dean Briggs, president of the association, pointed out the evils of intercollegiate athletics and the possibilities of remedying many of them. He explained to the delegates the objects of the association which are not to abolish college athletics but to make them better. He made a strong plea for courtesy and common sense and said that if the colleges keep, at the head of their athletics, men who try to be honest and who trust each other, half of the evils of intercollegiate athletics will die a natural death...