Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Castle closes with the following remarks: "I must admit that I found the teaching of English per se in the preparatory schools much better than my reading of entrance examination papers led me to expect. The deduction seems to be that there is a deficiency in our whole American scheme of education which makes it incapable of training our boys into habits of clear and logical thinking. Without, it no number of parrot-sung rules can avail. With it the writing of good English becomes immediately possible. The two hundred papers which I have read from the pens of English...
...Thayer '14, himself a writer of no mean ability, and W. C. B., Jr., '14 whatever modest person he is, have both reviewed the Illustrated, perhaps the hardest magazine for a literary person to criticise without losing his temper. They have done better than many of their seniors. Both conclude that it needs more skill in presentation, but that there is a great interest in its subject matter. What grave "assistant" would have stopped with this...
General Wood believes that "the best chance to have a good peace is to have a good army." There are many citizens fully as patriotic who believe that still better chances for peace will ensue when there is a nation-wide sentiment against all armies, good...
...disaster just at the right moment to catch the characters in the story. Mr. Jackson's "Point of View" is a short, vivid, and fairly amusing sketch of Western life. "Paraffine Percy," by Mr. Douglas, is the one piece of real distinction in the number. Even this would be better--nonsense though it is--if the ending were stronger. The laws of climax apply just as much to nonsense as to any other kind of writing...
...most important matters of business left over from last year's Council were (a) improvement in administration of oral examinations, (b) more frequent hour examinations looking to the decrease in importance of the two long examinations, (c) a better arrangement of Class Day Week (d) some plan for limiting a man's outside work, similar to the point system in effect at Technology. The Committee discussed these questions at several meetings with the following results: A conference with President Lowell and also with Professor Ford, chairman of the Modern Language Department, brought about the following changes to be made...