Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...contract to reinstate Belgium and Poland, and recently, by message of President Wilson, to free Roumania from Austrian control. This is a vast undertaking, but we must fulfill it. Of course we can accomplish our purpose with our present military establishments, but we could do it much better and fully as quickly under the Swiss system. We could raise an army of 500,000 men in seven months and subsequent armies of equal size in the same time...
...opinion on these changes only be resolution, yet it is voice will have a great effect on the country at large, One thing upon which all colleges and their athletic congressmen are agreed is that athletics in some form should be continued. The number of men who have done better in military service because of their athletics training is such that the position of athletics is no longer debatable. They have proved their value in peace-time and they are doing it every day during this time...
...Andover by a score of 2 to 0. The game was hard and fast throughout, with the result in doubt almost until the end. This is only the fourth week of practice for the Freshman players, and their work showed raggedness and lack of finish, as compared with the better team-work of the Andover players. Captain C. E. Masters '21 played a strong game for the Freshmen, participating in nearly every play...
...only game which has been played this season was a contest with Worcester Academy a week ago Wednesday, in which the Freshmen lost with a score of 3 to 1. Since then the team work has been improving, and the eleven is expected to make a much better showing this afternoon. Little is known about Andover's strength...
...great privilege to hear or see the best. We all like to be read aloud to, and if many of us object to this sort of thing frequently it is because the reading is not done well. Professor Copeland does not only read well; he reads better than anyone else. But more than this, his remarks and his talk--please do not think he will deliver a formal lecture--are the most enjoyable kind of an intellectual stimulus. It is no easy thing to be enjoyably didactic, but this Professor Copeland...