Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of Congressman Gardner's assertion that this country is totally unprepared for war, would it not be a good plan for Harvard to fit her men, so that if war should come they would be better able to serve their country? "In times of peace prepare for war" is an axiom which, although little heeded in this country, has been proven by Germany to be only too true. Two hour's drilling a week would not materially disarrange the life of the students. Besides preparing them for an emergency, the drills would be beneficial in a moral and physical...
...team-play of the men is steadily improving and their accuracy in passing and shooting is much better than at the beginning of the season. Phillips did not practice yesterday but it is expected that he will be in shape for a light work-out before the game with Yale on Saturday...
...perceptible increase in the number of men who enter at this age. The argument that the difficulty of the entrance examinations makes long preparation for college necessary is shown to carry little weight by the fact that the younger members of the present Freshman class, as a rule, did better work than the older ones...
...dormitories, although, as President Lowell says, no certain verdict can be arrived at until 1918 is graduated, and the effects on more than one Freshman class studied. The dormitories, without being "mollycoddle factories" as some sub-Freshmen liked to lable them before they saw them in operation, constitute a better environment for younger boys, than the old live-where-you-please system offered. Parents, who have hesitated to send boys to live "around," although such hesitancy was due largely to a distorted idea of the pitfalls of college life, will have no such fears in sending their sons...
Again the spring production consisted of four one-act pieces: "The Better Way," by P. Mariett '11; "Marvellous Benthem," by H. Hagedorn '07; "The New Age," by D. Carb '09; and "The Higher Good," by T. H. Guild '04, were selected, all of which were successful...