Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...balance of this season. For the present there will be four Freshman club crews divided into two Junior Thayer, and two Junior Eliot eights. The tentative make-up of the crews has been decided upon by Coach Manning, but there will be changes from time to time as better men show up; and if enough interest is shown two more eights will be formed...
...University and military training are not compatible," says Dean S. H. Goodnight, former director of education of the S. A. T. C. at the University of Wisconsin. The American Union Against Militarism goes him one better by declaring in a circular letter appealing for members in the colleges that this opinion has been given support by authorities in most his authorities in most of the colleges where the system was tried out. Among its members, this organization boasts such prominent peace-at-any-price advocates as Oswald G. Villard, of the "Nation" who officiates as chairman, Amos Pinchot, vice-chairman...
...University of Michigan; the universities of Leipsic and Munich; Johns Hopkins; the University of Chicago and the Institute Pasteur, of Paris. She has been a professor of pathology, a bacteriologist, an investigator on occupational diseases and a contributor of articles to scientific journals. Few "mere men" have any better equipment for such a post as hers...
...maximum education of which he is capable." The youth who simply cannot pass except in a course largely technical or agricultural will find some technical or agricultural institution ready to accept his preparation. But the great body of general colleges cannot surrender their standards. They can find better ways of measuring compliance with them, and can apply them in a range of subjects somewhat widened, but their watchword should be conservatism. NEW YORK...
Business men have long since learned that "the laborer is worthy of his hire." If the profession of teaching expects to attract men who are fitted for the work, then it must offer something better than a meagre existence during the apprenticeship years. Otherwise those who are qualified to carry on this responsible work will be turned aside into professions where the reward is more in proportion to their education and ability. It is a problem which must be satisfactorily met in the very near future, or educational standards will receive a setback that belated relief cannot entirely eliminate...