Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...baseball expenditures in 1908 were $12,526; in 1910, $11,177, a material decrease, due to better arrangement of schedule and more carefully supervised undergraduate management...
There has been a marked increase in the expenses of Freshman sports. In 1908 they were $5884; in 1909 $7425; in 1910 $7937. This increase has been mainly in football and track. Better medical supervision and greater safety for the players by the use of head-guards and pads has been the aim in football, the coaches believing that the life of a Freshman is worth as much as that of a Senior...
...barren condemnation of obvious defects; or an inspirited eulogy of patent perfections, why then I think all will agree that there is much room for improvement. But let it be remembered that CRIMSON editorials are daily and not monthly efforts. Let the Monthly editor who thinks he could do better work, take up his pen night after night for four successive months; and if he can turn out better average editorial work than the CRIMSON board then let him throw his stone,--and perhaps it will have more accuracy, if less weight than his last wordy assault...
...said Jefferson, are divided into two natural parties; the democratic and the aristocratic. The former believes that society is built upon a firm foundation, the latter that it is suspended from the top. The democrat believes that if the condition of the common people is improved, society will be better; the aristocrat that, if you look after the well-to-do, some of their prosperity will leak down to the common people. If, however, the reason for his mental bias is a pecuniary one, only an appeal to his conscience will move...
...other things are great aids to effective speaking. If a man can speak with brevity and apiness of illustration, he will gain for his speech something of the effectiveness of the Book of Proverbs and the eloquence of the parables of Christ. The more homely the illustration, the better it is. The more pointedly a thing is expressed, the more easily it is grasped. The great man is the man who can fix in an epigram the dominant idea of his day. Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt have done this. When Colonel Roosevelt said in his Paris speech, "Whenever human rights...