Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...force last year permanent company commanders, first sergeants and supply sergeants will be appointed; the lieutenants, remaining ser geants, and corporals will be changed fortnightly. Both military courses will drill together, but the men of the advanced course will be evenly distributed among the companies in order to provide better instruction for the new men. The company lists will be posted by Monday...
This is the great age of the world. There have been more far-reaching events in history that this revelation of the nations. There have been stranger events in history than this revolution of more strange and far-reaching. There have been longer wars and more better wars; but never a war in which as many men have struggled and so many died...
...better to be a young am in this generation than to have fought with Don Juan or with Godfrey in the Crusades. It is better to die, not knowing the culmination of these wars, yet playing a not ignoble part in them, than to have lived during a barren century of unepochal years...
...present time it is planned to have the regular University crew next spring in case the war should be over by that time. Therefore the Upper classmen who report for fall rowing will be in a far better position to win positions on the University than those who fail to avail themselves of this opportunity. No "H" men will be back. If a University crew is formed next spring, it will be built around a nucleus formed by the few men who will return and who held positions last year on the second and third crews. This leaves several vacancies...
...thing to go through the week without giving one cent to the fund, and friends will be none the wiser. But it will be proportionately difficult to silence that bothersome conscience, which demands that we help to make spare hours of our soldiers a time in which they can better themselves. There are not many of us who are too poor to padlock our purses to such an extent that we cannot say we helped establish these libraries...