Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...system uses an are instead of the customary spark for transmitting the sound, the are being formed between aluminum and copper electrodes in pure hydrogen. With this method Professors Chaffee and Pierce have been able to send to Gloucester, a distance of 35 miles, and hope to do even better in the near future...
...opposite the platform, and is as large a one as could possibly be installed. It is a notable embodiment of the latest advances in the art of organ construction, combining the highest artistic results in voicing and tonal beauty with the greatest skill in mechanical and electrical details. The better characteristics of the organ of an earlier time have been retained and combined with the more distinctive qualities of the modern organ. Those who have been in charge of the work of installing the new instrument declare that the aim of furnishing Appleton Chapel with an instrument worthy...
...intercollegiate matches to the neglect of the physical welfare of the mass of students, and sounds a warning against the evils of commercialism. Perhaps the least enthusiastic portion of the report is this discussion of undergraduate athletics, which, though optimistic in tone, shows clearly the desire for a better adjustment of collegiate endeavor...
...lack of smoothness of oral expression, the student can plead inexperience as an excuse with better justice than his instructor, since the latter has more opportunities for class-room practice than the most talkative of his students. But on those few occasions when the student must make himself heard in the class-room, he can plead no excuse except inadequate lungs when he fails to make his utterance, if not vociferous, at least audible...
Major Higginson concluded by pleading with Harvard men to devote their lives to individual unselfish service. "There is nothing better in the world," he declared, "than to help our fellows." But it is best that we work for such ends as individuals: we should not ask the government to do things which we can as well do ourselves...