Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Certainly there has been no other event more welcome to everybody who desires to see the benefits of the highest education appreciated in those communities which are the seats of universities and professional schools. That citizens of Cambridge have ever in large numbers believed that the city would be better off without Harvard University seems hardly credible; but that there has been misunderstanding on the part of some of them and that the issues were at one time somewhat befogged, is a matter of record...
...change in feeling has come about quite naturally, through the better understanding by the leading merchants and business men of Cambridge of the benefits, direct and indirect, which the city derives from Harvard. On the other hand, President Lowell and the Harvard authorities have been quick to respond to the friendliness of these citizens, who have the best interests of Cambridge at heart, and form and lead civic public opinion...
Last year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, realizing that it must soon move from its crowded quarters in the heart of Boston, looked about for a new site and was much attracted by the Riverbank esplanade on the north side of the Back Bay Basin. No better location could be desired for a great institution like the Institute, and its buildings as planned would have made a noble frame for that side of the Embankment. But the trustees of Technology hesitated, knowing the determination that had been expressed by a few persons in Cambridge to persist until they succeeded...
...talk on the subject, current among undergraduates whose enthusiasm is perhaps greater than their information, into profitable discussion. The danger of Socialism in the hands of the masses is great. By learning from an authoritative source the advantages and faults of the movement while undergraduates, Harvard men should be better prepared to aid in the formation of a sound public opinion upon the question as graduates...
...this tournament, for over 50 per cent, of the men entered are at present in Harvard or have been connected with the University. The champion for 1910, who will meet the winner of the tournament in the challenge rounds, is N. W. Niles '09, who is playing even better this year than last and should hold his title with-out effort. In the upper semi-final of the draw, it seems reasonably certain that H. I. Foster '01 will have as his only serious opponent A Sweetser '11, for the past two years University champion. In the next quarter...