Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...carrying out this program of universal training we must, as Colonel Goetz states, be careful to avoid "the odium of professional militarism". To accomplish this, our army camps are to embody the "worthy and important object of training first of all for better citizenship." This, of course, begs the whole question...
...linotype machine, and, finally, the necessity of recopying an entire page of manuscript if the proofreader discovers one or two typograhpical errors, all combine to make the process longer than the requirements of a modern newspaper press demand. Another restriction is that the process cannot be used for the better grade of book work. The uneveness of the right margin, which I mentioned, and the difficulty of producing artistic work will not allow the engraving of the more expensive books until the process has been greatly improved...
...book reappears. Common considerations of honesty and fair play do not deter these people; they brave the fear of discovery and the wrath of the librarian in their omnivorous search for knowledge. To call these people schoolboys is to understate the case; a schoolboy sometimes doesn't know any better...
...Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon. The game, which was by far the best yet played this season, was closely contested throughout, but particularly during the first half, the ball shifting continually from one side to the other, owing to the superiority of Harvard's defense as matched against the better offensive play of Springfield...
...meeting, what there was of it, could not have been better. The cheer and song leaders lifted those present off their feet in their enthusiasm. But the presence of those men who are so busy with their own affairs is sorely needed. Next Thursday every man in Harvard College must, if necessary, be forced to go to the Union...