Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON business competition deserves better support from you. Far too few men have reported to date. The opportunity is an unusual one and a second chance will be given to men who report at the CRIMSON Office on Friday at 7 o'clock...
Prospects for the intercollegiates next September are not so bright as for the season this spring. While the team will undoubtedly be better balanced than last year, when the team was runner-up in the championships, there is no one in sight to take the place of Allis, who won the individual championship last September...
...most important and essential part to play in the coming readjustment. Is it idle to think that the hardest and yet the most necessary lesson which must be taught will be mutual trust and co-operation among nations? And need it be suggested that example is ever a better teacher than precept? Let us by all means keep ourselves in a position to counsel peace and good will, without having others feel that we are meantime training our young men to fight against--them. And let us not waste our youth in a training which we pray never to have...
...University swimming team has just closed the most successful season it has ever had, winning six of its eight meets. Over fifty men reported on the squad at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. tank this year and with the plans for better facilities and several long trips which are now being considered for next season the prospect is especially encouraging. None of the members of this year's team will be lost by graduation so that Coach Mann will have all the letter men back again as a nucleus for a team with which to contend for intercollegiate honors...
...making a beginning towards a consistent policy which may be followed in the future to give the maximum security for this country. The old form of national defense has proved antiquated; we must invest in a new. A practical beginning must be made and there is no better place to make it than in the American universities. The summer military camps are a movement in exactly the opposite direction...