Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...success in any number of ways, in athletics, in studies, socially, economically, even morally. But the whole course of four years is-nothing but one big competition, no matter in what field of distinction one is interested. Even the man who does nothing at all, must do that better than the majority in order to receive recognition. Harvard is no place for the mediocre man who hangs back. He must make his way in his own fashion, just the same as he would if he were fighting the world. The men who have battled their way through Harvard...
...Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. W. B. Felton '19 held the Purple batters to three hits, two of which were of the scratch variety, and was given good support by his teammates. The University nine showed a marked improvement in every department of the game, and played a far better brand of ball than they have exhibited in any game this season. The defense of the team was decidedly stiffened, while the Crimson batters touched Zink, Amherst's best pitcher, for a total of eight hits...
...submitted at the twenty-first annual meeting at Buffalo in June, contains a proposal for a combination of the Harvard Alumni Association, the Associated Harvard Clubs, and the Association of Class Secretaries. The plan will be submitted for ratification in the belief that a centralized organization would be better able to keep the graduates in touch with the University than the present decentralized system. In addition, such a combination would prove a more effective instrument for accomplishing graduate desires, and would unite the alumni on a more uniform basis...
...class of 1920 has voted to have a gateway erected in memory of the fellow members who have lost their lives in the war. Such a decision seems to me altogether inappropriate. Would it not be much better for a class to recognize the heroic sacrifice of their fellow members, passing resolutions to this effect, and by sending them to the bereaved families of these men? The erection of a memorial gateway, will only be establishing a precedent, which will very probably be followed by other classes, thereby duplicating the idea that is to be expressed in some great university...
...mind one of the tactical feelings of the elective system. Very many of us have found that the liberty given in this direction fails of accomplishing its end, and that from the want of knowledge of the nature of some of the studies offered we are but little better off than we should be if the studies were decided for us. The fault does not lie in the Elective System itself, but in the necessity of choosing without sufficient information of the object of different courses and the manner in which they are to be treated; and, in the absence...