Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That those who are outside the Kingdom also share in the divine grace as well as those within was his second point, and his last, that the sacerdotal system is irreconcilable with a worthy conception of the divine character. Bacon says on this aspect of the theme: "It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other contumely." Dr. Horr also quoted, in defence of his argument from "The Shipwreck" in the "Colloquies" of Erasmus...
...Graduate Treasurer, Mr. Garcelon, grew better acquainted with existing conditions, the committee turned over to him more responsibility for details. Nevertheless, the committee held fourteen meetings in the academic year. The worst weakness of the committee as a working body lies in the difficulty of securing regular attendance from graduates who are not members of the Faculty. The graduate contingent of men who at College knew athletic sport from the inside, and who now can look at it through the perspective of middle life, is essential to a balanced organization; no one of these three gentlemen attends a single meeting...
...tradition of recent baseball is not the tradition of gentlemen, and the gentlemen are overpowered by the tradition. That the gentlemanly instinct at Harvard dies hard is shown by the half-hearted and inefficient manner in which our illegitimate cheering is conducted--as if those who lead it knew better, but not quite enough better to abstain. It has therefore not even the merit of whole-souled barbarity...
...there is a direct financial benefit to be derived from the adoption of a subsidy policy, for by such a policy Americans are admitted to competition with foreigners on an equal basis, while commercial intercourse and trade expansion are fostered. Subsidization means the lowering of rates, the securing of better shipping facilities and the diverting of American money from foreign to American shippers...
Williams was defeated by the University baseball team in a ten-inning game on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, by the score of 2 to 1. As in last year's game, the pitching contest between Hicks and Templeton was the deciding issue. This time Hicks had decidedly the better of it, for while he struck out only half as many men as Templeton, he had good control, whereas Templeton's wildness in the tenth inning was responsible for the winning...