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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wish to get some benefit out of what is said, ought to deserve some consideration. Good will and good feeling demand that. We would beg, therefore, those who show their appreciation of the Lecture by the exercise of their feet and not of their brains, to give a little better chance to those who wish - foolishly perhaps - to exercise their brains and not their feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN LECTURES. | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

...numbers are not so large but that the use of some larger recitation-room, or the formation of another division, would solve the problem. A little less reluctance, too, on the part of some instructors to have a few more examination-books to look over would make matters better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

...shall publish, at the end of this year, a comparative table of the times at all the American colleges, and we hope to see Harvard stand very high on the list. No college in America has the facilities for athletic sports of all kinds that we have, and that better time is not made at our meetings is simply disgraceful. However, better things may be in store for us in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

...Freshman Entry-Book will be kept open until Saturday morning to allow every opportunity for men to enter. At the present writing only four names appear on its pages, and if '82 do not come to time better, we shall fear that they are on a par with the upper classes in muscular inactivity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

...evening was that Jarvis Field was ready for a track, and that a field meeting would be held there before long. This news was received with enthusiasm; and the interest taken by all the classes in the Association seems to assure its prosperity. We can desire, certainly, nothing better for the H. A. A. than as successful meetings in the future as those of last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEETING OF THE H. A. A. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

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