Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nature impels men to trudge over Arctic and Antarctic ice-fields with the satisfaction of all bodily requirements reduced to a minimum and burdened with a load of scientific instruments. Other men expose their bodies to the attacks of pestilential microbes for the advance of knowledge and the betterment of man's estate, while Alexander Agassiz rises with difficulty, when over-whelmed with sickness, and has his mattress laid on the deck of the tossing steamer in order that he may the better record the message which the dredge or trawl has brought to light from the dark abysses...
...closer connection between city and University, which were made public last Saturday. In addition to these provisions, three suggestions were made: first, that the club have as its guests at an annual dinner the high scholars of the Sophomore class; second, that the members of the club become better acquainted with the students; third, that a movement be started for the improvement of the approaches to the University grounds. "Government of Cities by Commission" was discussed by Professor W. B. Munro, assistant professor of government, and C. R. Woodruff, of Philadelphia, the secretary of the National Municipal league...
...tempers of mind found both in the Christian and the non-Christian faiths, the world-accepting and the world-renouncing tempers. The believer who accepts the world as a revelation of God and who finds in every human act and relation a deep meaning, believes in a better world because of the very incompleteness of this world. The nonbeliever looks forward to death because it closes all, and the believer because it does not. In the world-accepting view the believer tries to find God's will for man and following it he finds that...
...reply to the question. "What advantage do you think you ought to have found at Harvard which you have failed to find?" is the matter of closer relations between the Faculty and students. It seems to be an almost universal regret among graduates that they did not utilize to better advantage the opportunity while in College of becoming personally acquainted with such great characters as Dean Shaler and Professor Norton. Among the undergraduates the same feeling is expressed concerning many of the better-known men of the present Faculty...
...past year the soliciting of subscriptions from students has been abolished entirely, that method of raising mono being considered inequitable, as it was found that most of the money came from Freshmen, and that many boys were contributing sums which they could not afford to give. It certainly seems better, in the absence of any permanent endowment, to raise the necessary money from graduates and other interested persons who are very willing to contribute small sums for admission to games...