Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Asked how he thought American university students could best aid reconstruction in Europe, Professor Levy-Bruhl replied: "First of all, you should become better informed on European problems and history. Americans have a fair knowledge of the British Empire, but of France and Germany they know little. France needs economic and financial help very badly. The war was a terrible blow to us; our most productive provinces were pillaged, and the debt we incurred is a heavy burden to carry...
...make tennis a major sport? In what better way can the desire of both Faculty and undergraduates to create more participation in athletics be satisfied? Men would be interested in something which would afford them pleasure and exercise during their whole lives. Nothing so inspires a man to work for a team as the hope of reward in the form of a straight letter. The University has excellent facilities for playing. The four fields, Divinity, Jarvis, Holmes and Soldiers', if all properly cared for, could handle easily more than a hundred players every day. No vast new expense would...
Work for the coming season will begin next week when a call for University and Freshman candidates will be issued. The prospects for a successful team are better this year than they have been for years. Three veterans of last year's team are back: R. H. Snow '20, C. Howard '20, and S. H. Ordway '21, all of whom made the trip to Yale...
Unfortunately it is all too true that in a very great many instances, popular elections throughout the country are only attended by a comparative minority. Smaller issues and candidates for petty positions are almost uniformly neglected by the better class of citizens. Hence there comes into power the crooked alderman and the "gang boss." This latter type could not exist if the voting privilege were universally used...
...have to be urged to watch a football game. No better way of getting excitement has been devised this side of the trenches. Let us all therefore spend this afternoon in the best possible fashion, by filling up the Stadium and helping the team roll up a score...