Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...know, Mr. R., I like Freshmen much better than any other class; they are so gentle and fresh...
...entries were far too scanty, and some of the times made have been considerably beaten here; but there were two events that step several paces beyond anything ever done before at Harvard, the one hundred yards and the one hundred and twenty. In many of the other races better time would have been made, undoubtedly, had the best man had some one more nearly his equal to push him; but in the races mentioned above, the contestants being all good men, the result was a record in each case not only exceptional for Harvard but creditable for any American college...
...Argus complains of the "undignified scramble" which takes place in the chapel every morning as soon as "Amen" is pronounced from the pulpit. We were not surprised to hear of such a deplorable state of things at Yale, but Wesleyan ought to be able to set a better example...
...Watson replied that we now had a veteran crew, who had a year before them to prepare for a race, whereas the crew of '69 did not begin training until the spring, as they had not expected to row in England; therefore he thought we had a much better chance of beating than we had then, and that we could find as good a coach as himself in some one else...
...Peabody of Cambridge, England, formerly captain of the Trinity first eight, on being asked his opinion, said he considered our crew much better than an average English crew, but not better than the best, for, although the material was as good as any he had ever seen, in form and finish they were inferior to the best English crew's. He, too, when asked, went on to say that he thought Cambridge would not accept a challenge, as their crew this year is an inferior one, but that Oxford probably would, as Harvard is considered there the representative college...