Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...inspiring to one who believes in the equality of men -- and we all do in our better moods -- to see those who in the more artificial and constrained social order of the college would never have occasion to meet, and would never form an intimacy should they meet, working together on a just and natural plane of parity. The distinctions of class, of race, of money, poor and trivial as they are, have vanished...
...convinced that it is an ideal spot for the training of soldiers for the summer months. For five or possibly six months of the year no better place could be selected, but because of the rigorous winters of this section I do not believe it could be used to advantage during those months for the training of large bodies of men, much of the training of which must be done in the open; but, there is no telling what the exigencies of the present war may require and it may become necessary to keep a large number of troops...
Both the American and French officers in charge of the instruction of the University Training Corps commented yesterday upon the rapid strides that have been made in the drilling of the Unit since the beginning of intensive training. Not only are the regular companies displaying much better formations, but the provisional companies as well are being put into shape...
...general thing it may be said that, while some good men failed to be admitted to the camp, it was because preference was given to better...
...many Bostonians in choosing Harvard men in preference to Bostonians, although the Harvard men might not reside here. We presume that Congress did not intend to divide appointments like it divides postoffice appropriations. The mayor's protest smells of pork. Did he make it for love of country, that better officers might lead our armies? Did he make it from some sudden, unaccountable, and overweening sense of justice...