Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more to be countenanced in the communications of today than it is in the courts of the present time. If there exists a just cause for complaint or a worthy suggestion, then it should be made openly, for that which cannot be said except under cloak of anonymity had better remain forever unsaid...
...financial status, and their basis of popularity, and from this data, the derivation of an application to our own problem; and then (2) a campaign to gain the widespread interest in the Union, the popularity, which will be its sustaining power. This would mean more entertainments of general appeal, better eating arrangements; in short, more comprehensive adaptability to the social needs of the College as a whole, whatever they...
...phases of student activities. That such a need has ceased to exist we should hardly care to assert. Nevertheless with the development of student life and equipment for student organizations we must admit that the special functions which the Union once fulfilled are now to a large extent better fulfilled elsewhere. The CRIMSON has moved to more adequate quarters in a building of its own. The Reading Rooms in Widener Library naturally present themselves to one's mind before the Reading Room in the Union. As a gathering place for out of town students and for occasional class meetings...
...after all, is or ought to be the important stage of our training, the stage which, once, reached, should forbid our wasting time any further. It is not enough, then, for an institution to offer a good system of preparation. Out of fairness to both students and professors a better means should be contrived of revealing the opportunities that lie behind a prosaic statement in the catalogue...
...which Costa Rica and England are equally represented, or in which the International Army drills constantly at the Hague, understand neither the spirit nor the necessity of the time. The vital thing, at the moment, is to train men, and particularly statesmen, to the realization that conference is a better method than war for the settlement of disputes. International Government is bound to grow slowly and to encounter every degree of hesitation and scepticism. The League of Nations at the present time means nothing more than the admission that there is a common good in the world and that...