Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...writings of French authors. M. Taine claims to appreciate our language and literature at least as fully as any of his countrymen; but in his remarks on Shakespeare you can see, if you examine at all closely, a lurking pity for the poor islanders who have found nothing better than an extremely improbable and barbarous language to express their ideas...
...proved inefficient, in which, too, the Faculty were praised for their moderation and sympathy with the students, himself received a private. It is indeed a censurable act for any one to call a man in the third story to the window by throwing a snowball at that window. Much better in every way, more gentlemanly and more soothing to all in the immediate neighborhood, is it to stand in the yard and shout your friend's name...
...make any claims to being religious men, is of as high a character as at other colleges. Certainly, men do not pretend to religion from selfish motives, nor is their piety a hot-house growth. They profess religion because they believe it, and stand by it all the better for the lack of a forcing temperature. The College is a little world by itself, and the bad influences of a world are here, and the good also...
...well! you are better off; you died...
...instructor is fully persuaded he does not exist, he must 'see through a glass darkly', therefore I most respectfully request the finder to present this money to him for the purpose of buying a new pair of spectacles." The name of the donor was signed, but it had better be omitted here...