Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cover a period of fully three weeks and a little over. This arrangement will serve two purposes. In the first place, there appear to be an unusual number of students in various departments of the college who are anxious to earn money just now, and the earning is never better that it is during the holiday season. In the second place, an extension of the vacation will mean for Tufts considerable economies in its use of fuel for heating, despite the fact that special provision will be made to continue uninterrupted the work of those students of drafts...
...interests told the Food Administration that, as there is no shortage of food except in pork and its products, abstinence from wheat and beef involves an unnecessary sacrifice. If this be true, and if, as they say, stocks of beef and mutton are pilling up in cold storage, what better proof do we need of the President's statement? --New York World...
...East are looking up at something on the front cover of the new Lampoon. It may be the bomb bursting in air or merely the printed legend, "Christmas Number," but there is something worth looking over anyway. The front cover is rather impressive, by the way--much better in its colors of red and blue and its unusual theme than a "Merry Xmas" affair, done in the orthodox red and green. Not a holly leaf in sight, either. You take the laurel sprig for this num- ber, Lampy...
...Honorable Ralph Norman Angell Lane, better known by his pen name, Norman Angell, will speak upon "The Political Factors of Allied Victory" in Phillips Brooks House tonight at 8.15 o'clock. The meeting is conducted under the joint auspices of the International Polity Clubs of the University and Radcliffe and will be open only to members of the University and Radcliffe...
...work in the afternoon. At the age of nineteen, on completing their studies, they should be well prepared for a second lieutenant's commission, and even if the War Department declined to recognize the school by automatically issuing commissions to its graduates, I think it would be all the better that they should go straight into the ranks for a period that would undoubtedly be short, as their competence would give them their step before long. It seems to me that the University could well afford to say to students who had taken such a course with a view...