Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...column is printed an article by Dr. Sargent emphasizing the fact that physical fitness is of far greater importance in the movement toward preparedness than is military drill. Granted; but Dr. Sargent goes on to minimize the value of a university battalion on the ground that students' time might better be employed either on the athletic field or in the State Militia. What about those men who do not participate in athletics and who are not members of the militia, yet who might be induced to join such an organization as is proposed for the University...
...right in his statement that the proposed Harvard Battalion cannot compare with the Militia for military training. There are many men, however, who have not time to enlist with the regular Militia, and it is for these men that the Battalion is planned. A little tactical knowledge is better than none...
...matter of fact, however, the men who stand highest in their high school classes in the West are usually better students than a great many eastern men who tutor their way into the College. Under the present system mediocre men who have the advantage of the elaborate tutoring system of the East are preferred to more capable men in the West and South who have no such props...
...difference between a good and a bad audience, not measured by numbers, but by the bond of sympathy which may or may not exist between the audience and the actor. "An audience," he said, "can do 25 per cent. of the work, and get a 50 per cent better performance by doing...
...sign up for only one year instead of three. At Yale a voluntary artillery corps was recently formed, and 486 men enlisted for three years, enough to form a battalion of four batteries. In view of the splendid showing made by Harvard men at the summer camps--a showing better than was made by either Yale or Princeton,--it is perhaps not too much to hope that enough men will answer the call to form an entire infantry regiment of 1200. This would mean that a little more than one-quarter of all the men in the University would enlist...