Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that these Good Neighbors will go over even better at Lima than their predecessors did at Buenos Aires, the Administration last week applied remover to the two outstanding wrinkles in its Latin American relations...
...Frank, who, like Austie, is a real triple threat man every moment he is on the field. There's rollicking Ben, who learned many lessons in patience and persistence while waiting for Vern to graduate. There's burly Mike, whose fierce competition with Ben made both of them better men. There's big Ken, who looks so docile and lumbering but about whom enemy linemen have nightmares weeks before the Harvard. . . . There' little Nick, who had to wait for Russ and Chuck, and who seems to delight in his opponents' weight advantage. There's solemn Dave, who has the damndest...
...which deals with the national budget. Here he expounds the theory that a budget deficit is necessary and quite normal during a depression. Increased government spending to maintain consumer purchasing power should be carried on in a time of business contraction. Don't worry about balancing the budget until better times come, he advises, and then make the repayments to investors in government bonds. Rogers points out that what is needed in a budget policy is a long-run rather than a short-run balance, and that after all "a year is a pretty arbitrary accounting period . . . In fact...
There is also opportunity to help the early registrant--and only the early registrant--in adjusting his college career so that he will better qualify for a position on graduation. This means impressing him with the importance of maintaining a satisfactory record and of the desirability of participating in extra-curricular activities. Early and long acquaintance with the Placement Office results in a personal contact without which it cannot render its maximum service to each individual...
...provide the spiritual uplift for which chapel is intended, only the best men from outside and from within the university can be chosen. All cannot be as profound and as stimulating as Dean Matthews, nor as interesting as Professor Hopper. But in proportion as better choices continue to be made, so will the University community, which is always ready to recognize merit as it is to ignore mediocrity, respond with greater chapel attendance...