Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...produces in brave men an eagerness to be of immediate service. This is natural; it is good; but there is something better. The soldier's task requires patience in matters of which he cannot see the direct utility. Most undergraduates want to help the country in the coming conflict; but the Government itself has not yet formed in detail its plans for raising an army, or at least has not made them public, and the student is still more in the dark about the opportunities that will be open to him. Until he knows more he will do well...
...editorial is written throughout in a highly moral tone of admonition, of gentle rebuke, but it is nothing less than a serious attack on the ambulance drivers who have failed so lamentably to grasp what the writer calls nobly "the one loyalty" and "the greater cause." Perhaps I had better give his own words...
...first time this year the Stadium track was in use. Although it is still a little soft, it is better than the other track, and the former will be used from now on. Only the straightaway and the track along the western side of the bowl are in proper condition as yet, but a few more days of this warm weather or a warm rain will get the frost out of the ground, so that the entire track can be put into shape...
...photograph of Captain Cordier on the cover appear the most successful. It is to be hoped that future numbers of the Illustrated will contain more articles of such vital importance as the one reviewed above. There is no reason why a magazine already so good should not be better...
...Harvard men who are to be future officers will find no finer example of an officer than General Wood, and no better motto to follow in the perilous future than, "I am a soldier, and I go where I am sent...