Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saddest part of this episode is that these contributions are being used in a desperate effort to defeat a charter which, if adopted, would bring greater security and better working conditions for every employee of the City...
That the University is a better judge of the proper allocation of monies than are donors is too obvious a point to be labored. Mr. Conant can invoke more specific arguments. Gifts for stated purposes, although rarely refused, have in the past been sources of positive embarrassment to the University. There have been lecture series, even professorships, which involved questionable and unnecessary attacks upon popular institutions, even upon religions. Negatively equivalent to this is the fact that restricted grants have frequently supported eminently useless projects. Arising, perhaps, from vital controversies in the eighteenth century, these later became unique for their...
...captain--and he is "a wonderful captain," in Jaako's estimation--is a Brayton, and in Harvard running of recent years there is no better name. Last year there was Sherman, with his 50 second quarters, and Dick and his good half-miles. Roswell is the last of the line, and Jaako says he is typical of his family, "for they're all great fightters and great workers, and all have built themselves into good runners...
Three Sophomores complete the team led by Bob Nichols, last year's Freshman captain. Although out of the triangular race, he's been in the scoring in most of the meets, and observers like his nice, easy running. Charlie Oldfather has been coming better after a slow start, while Joseph McLoughlin, who had hardly run at all before he came to Harvard, is much improved over last year. He was 14th in the Yale-Princeton meet last fall, but now he's one of the three members of his class on the team...
...play on his mysterious visit to Russia in 1917? And was he as deeply involved in world affairs as he claimed? Last week a two-volume edition of his letters answered these questions and many more. Covering the period from 1889 to his death in 1936, they give a better characterization of Steffens than he was able to evoke in all his perplexed self-probing...