Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...much or little the world is benefitted by the annihilation of that life in seeking tremendous goals. But since we do not know, nor even the shrewdest men, for all their cleverness, dare to guess, we cannot say what value to place on mortality, and whether it is better that men live their allotted term of three score years and ten heedless of the fall and rise of worlds, or whether it is better that men die before their time that great deeds may be accomplished. But all men who think hold a philosophy of life. And that philosophy determines...
...duty which it must perform. But it is going beyond necessity or reason to tell in dismal words of famine stalking abroad, and of the collapse of most of our civilization through the lack of food. Some Government officials whose word bears weight, and who should know better, from a too strong imagination have done so. There is no need for imagination, but rather for truth, for comprehension and justice in foretelling the future...
...Bert Lytell as his nephew, the doctor and hero, have evidently seen the stage before, and they prove it in "Mary's Ankle." Indeed, the caste is decidedly good, but one cannot help feeling that it is a fearful waste of time for so many doctors of that better class to keep showing "Mary's Ankle...
Owing to the better weather conditions recently, much good work has been accomplished by the men who are planning to enter the newly recognized Aviation School, which will open at Princeton in about two weeks...
...France, which, on the side of the Allies, has borne by far the heaviest part in the war, has insisted that her young men should pursue their ordinary courses of study until they came to the age for beginning military instruction. We cannot do better than follow that example...