Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...advisors as a purely personal work, for it embodies all the hazards of failure. Teaching is this pastoral personal opportunity. Do you know a man who is eating his heart out in an uncongenial trade into which custom has forced him? Might he not be teaching? The sooner the better, let the possible misfit and his friends investigate the work of the boarding schools...
...strength, energy, talk, and publicity which is to go into the military camps could be used for fighting the causes of war, how much better for this and every other country and how truly patriotic such work would be. If the undergraduate mind all over these United States would realize this, we should have a compelling force that would be sure to accomplish great things. You deserve the thanks of all for bringing this to the attention of Harvard undergraduates. C. P. ATKINSON
...Smith '15, who writes an "inside view" of the elections. The article is full of illuminating facts. This sort of publicity does the society good, and accounts for the growing respect that is being felt for it. When Phi Beta Kappa and its aims and methods are better understood, a key man will get almost as much honor as an "H" man. Articles like "Popular Errors About Phi Beta Kappa" help to bring the man of intellect almost on a par with the man of muscle in the eyes of the University world...
...would be noticeably depleted if it was common knowledge that the united Mexican people if invaded could easily wipe out all of the regular army we could send there, and ask, for more. There are about 185,000 men under arms there now, and while our troops are much better, the difference in quality would not make our maximum of 35,000 anywhere near their equal...
Quite possibly there exists no better material in this country for military officers than our colleges and universities offer. There is not only no better, but there is no other material from which can be drawn those who will spread the doctrines of the futility of war and supplant those diplomatists and leaders of popular opinion who were responsible for the present conflict...