Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...short-sightedness. He made his mistake in judgment because he could not see our modern attitude towards books in education. Certainly many of us have not stopped to see our own attitude. We are simply conscious that things have changed, and we assume that they have changed for the better...
...obvious that it is better to have many books than a few books that there is need of commenting on the dangers of our privilege. There was a time when no man could be great unless he had read nothing more than Pilgrims Progress, the Bible, and Shakespeare's Plays. That time has gone, and the student now a days instead of trying to get a sympathy with a few well-known authors, boasts that he is a pioneer and seeks to achieve an education by reading books by unknown authors. The desire to discover more in formation...
Furthermore, is is beyond question that private preparatory schools make much more of athletic training than do the public high schools. They have better facilities and a limited number of students, each one of whom receives a great deal of physical instruction. In fact, many private preparatory schools depend upon athletic notoriety to enlarge their constituency, whereas the public schools have no such incentive to athletic fame. It is not at all remarkable that the combination of these factors results in a situation, in which the private schools predominate in the physical, and the public schools in the intellectual phase...
...University and second hockey teams played a 1 to 1 tie at the Arena yesterday, the scrimmage occupying about 25 minutes. The play in general showed no striking improvement, except that the team-play was a trifle better than usual. The scores, however, were again the result of individual play rather than team-work. Phillips scored for the University after a brilliant rush down the ice, and Palmer for the second after carrying the puck almost the whole length of the rink. The University showed some improvement in getting the puck out of the corners, but otherwise the play...
...received increasing attention and support. The prosperity of the Musical Clubs, the abundance of excellent recitals and symphonic concerts in Cambridge, the founding of the Harvard Opera Association and of the unique Harvard Musical Review, have all been recent developments of prime significance in the movement toward a better appreciation of music. Concurrent with these things has come a corresponding increase in the number and enrollment of the University music courses...