Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...milling plants in the district, the party, with a light equipment, went with a pack train through the mountains. Detailed work, followed by the trip through the mountains, made it possible for the men to not only become familiar with a large number of geological phenomena, but to appreciate better the great physical history of the mountains, and through the emphasis of physiographic methods, to understand the present forms of relief in the region. The party was fortunate in not having any serious accidents occur, and the pleasures of camp life were made even greater by the hard work...
...forward line, the University players are not as experienced, or, with the exception of Percy, as fast as the B. A. A. offense. Coach Winsor, on the other hand, has drilled his quartet to better team work than that of the B. A. A. seven, who depend too much on the individual brilliancy of Skilton, Huntington, and Osgood. Curtis, who is filling Baldwin's place at left centre, and Percy, should be able to uphold the centre of the line against Osgood and Hutchinson. Thacher and Rice are fast men and handle their sticks fairly well, but they...
...list having been named by two or more coaches. Sixteen of these occupied similar positions last season. There are five University players on the list, Mahan, Gilman, King, Soucy, and Harte. There are some inconsistencies in the compilation; for instance, although it is stated that Watson is a better field general than Barrett of Cornell, his name is left out of the list, which contains the names of ten quarterbacks. In the review of the season Outing says...
...healthy social life. But if these things are not found in the country it is due more often to a lack of initiative and leadership than to an inherent defect in farm life. By the leadership of one man in a community, a cooperative effort to secure better educational conditions, and a stimulation of organized recreation and social life, would be carried on, that would greatly increase the attractiveness of country life...
...there are certain clear preliminary qualifications for the office. Practical men, for instance, who are chiefly interested in doing things, who take an objective view of life, who think of it in terms of action, will not usually make great ministers. They are better executives and business men than prophetic leaders. Scientific men, chiefly interested in knowing things, caring mostly for truth for the truth's sake, while they are not infrequently found in the profession, are not the most at home there. The type of man who will find his place in the ministry is of the expressive...