Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With three Liberty Loan campaigns successfully launched and taxation assuming proportions which involve every phase of American life, the question of the better method of financing the war is one of foremost importance to the entire nation. There are economic aspects and there are political aspects; one must be tempered by the other and both must receive their...
...Roman stadiums. This year Princeton gave up its clubs to our teams and showed us every possible courtesy, and the University players came back impressed and somewhat ashamed of the less cordial manner with which we have been wont to treat our visitors. Little courtesies help to establish a better relationship between colleges and other universities, including Harvard, would do well to follow in the Tigers tracks. With all its evils it has taken the war to teach what sport for sport's sake means...
...France, marks the completion of an errand whose importance can hardly be overestimated. Both as to the character of the delegates and the manner in which they carried themselves, sometimes under great provocation, our principal organization of workingmen is to be congratulated. No trained diplomatists could have done better. No other Americans in any walk of life could have exhibited a loftier patriotism...
...Garland, the national junior tennis champion, will meet the University representatives on Divinity Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The University racquet wielders a week ago defeated Princeton five matches to four. Since this match much practice has been had by the members of the squad, so that better tennis will be displayed against the Elis...
Those who went to Sanders Theatre yesterday and attended the exercises of the Memorial Society can appreciate this feeling. Those who heard Lieutenant Morize deliver an address filled with sympathy, high praise for our fallen, and splendid advice for ourselves, came away better Americans. It was a meeting of serious citizens, paying the only tribute they could to our new heroes, not in any careless, foregranted spirit but with full heart and devotion. No, Memorial Day has not lost its purpose for us. It is about to become a day with more meaning than all our other national days...