Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large number of students. Now that the excellence of its work is proved, there should no longer be any reluctance on the part of members of the University who are seeking training in architecture to take that training here rather than in other less perfected though better known institutions. The School of Architecture has received the high commendation it so richly deserved...
...have such decisions before them to feel a personal responsibility for the errors and absurdities committed in our legislative chambers and to resolve to correct conditions as now exist by entering politics themselves. If the recent bungling merely provokes criticism by our college men, the future promises no better government for the nation. Our history and government courses have done no good, if they have not convinced us that we must take an active interest in public affairs, or our political system will degenerate. To the wide awake man a new incentive for entering this field occurs every day. Harvard...
...Inspiration cannot be where sincerity is not," says an editorial writer in the current number of the Advocate. "Neither inspiration nor sincerity is in much of our undergraduate poetry. There are too many sonorous nothings, too many technical devices, too many detriments. It were better to express true emotion imperfectly than to express a feigned emotion perfectly...
...years of college, instead of having class unity, each class has 17 different units with different identities; there is but little attempt on the part of one unit to understand another. The energy that ought to be expended in making a greater Princeton is spent in promoting a better club section for the next year...
There will be no enlistments at M. I. T. as a unit, the objection being that such a unit would mean the concentration of material of the same kind, the diffusion of which would insure its better utilization. But for those men who are desirous of joining the army the committee recommends the Engineers' Corps, Coast Artillery and Ordnance Department...