Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University," I referred not to Harvard students, but to the governing bodies of the University, more particularly to the Board of Overseers, for to that board the recommendations of the Committee on Military Science were made. The more discussion of military training by Harvard men as individuals the better. Universal training at Harvard, in the nation, and even in other nations, are matters about which we may well form and express opinions...
...disciplinary experts. Why not draft the Faculty for the job? Since members of the teaching staff have time hanging upon their hands, this suggestion has found marked favor. The success of the arrangement varies with the professor. About all that can be argued for it is that it is better than nothing. But Seniors--that's another matter. For one thing they know the ropes. More than that, Freshmen will give them what they will not so readily give parents or professors--respect. New York Evening Post...
...first scrimmage of the week the second football team succeeded in ripping up the University defense with considerable regularity yesterday, showing a better brand of football than they have all fall. On their own three yard line they held the regulars for three downs before R. S. Humphrey '21 was able to carry the ball across on the fourth down. Talbot, an ineligible, playing left tackle for the scrubs, starred by downing F. C. Church '20 15 yards behind the scrimmage line while P. Salter '21 blocked Church's kick. J. F. Brown '22, after a blocked kick, A. Horween...
...further pointed out in this report that, in spite of the fact that this department suffered from the war the same as the other departments of the University, it was nevertheless very active and progressive during this period. This is shown particularly in the recent movement to better the conditions of co-operation with affiliated schools which have been developed here in Cambridge within the last few years, and was also exemplified by the interdenominational meeting held in Cambridge in the summer...
...Medora, the Kootenai and Big Horn Mountains and the sites of Roosevelt's ranches. Many of Roosevelt's western friends and companions appear in the picture, among them Joe and Sylvane Ferris, Jack Reuter and Mrs. Margaret Roberts, "the most wonderful woman in the Bad Lands." This film shows better than any written word how Roosevelt lived and toiled during the days that he lived in the West...