Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Butler, of Columbia, points out the need for intelligent giving for educational purposes. He deplores the habit which too many well-intentioned donors have of locking up their bequests in certain specified projects. "What the university most needs", he says, "is gifts which will aid it in its doing better work which it has already undertaken, and not gifts which compel it to assume new obligations that in turn make an additional drain on its already over-taxed resources...
...clock. Although Mr. U'Ren is most widely known as the leader of the direct legislation movement in Oregon, he has also had much experience with other reform measures. Among these are the recall, the direct primary, corrupt practices acts, proportional representation, and ballot reforms. His appeals for better government by means of such measures have frequently appeared in periodicals all over the country...
...rules of 1912 have produced a game that gives every opportunity for developing an all-around attack, at the same time promising positive returns in the shape of scores for that attack. In advocating the change in the rules, the idea expressed was if a team be better than another let the rules so stand as to show this on the field and score board. The rules have justified themselves in this respect and have produced a game that pleases the public, the players, and so far as may be, those who have formerly criticised, for it gives an hour...
...what way can Harvard better serve the country...
...meet members of the Faculty, to come to know them off the lecture platform, is one which we cannot afford to neglect. It is a privilege which in after years we should be sorry to have missed. Let us, then, take full advantage of this opportunity to become better acquainted with some of the men who make Harvard University what...