Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Several motions were made and lost. At last a little gentleman arose, and, moving excitedly about in his seat, broke out: "I zink ze money had better not be touched, presently; maintenant, ze inwards of Olden need decoration, which zing I move...
...keep the students in their rooms, the parents of the young men ought to know that they are out, and govern themselves accordingly." We are used to the misrepresentations of Harvard in the Herald, but, really, a paper like the Watchman, which pretends to respectability, ought to know better. We wish that the Boston clergymen would "agitate" the editor until he knows enough to keep from the columns of his paper statements which are not only false but preposterously absurd. We should like to inform the Watchman: 1st, that the students of Harvard College have not formed a considerable part...
...years, when the crew is composed, for the most part, of new men, and when there is all the more reason why their training should be most carefully looked after. It is safe to say that the men who are to row against Yale next June must be in better form than any Harvard has yet turned out, and that this is possible under Mr. Bancroft's direction we may confidently expect...
...there is a revised course of instruction, which requires fewer recitations a week. In Thayer Hall the price of some of the rooms has been reduced, so that rooms which formerly cost $150 may now be had for $125. This is good news, and it would have been still better if the reduction had extended to all the rooms in that building, and the rest also. The Examination Group and the order of the Entrance Examinations are printed in the Catalogue this year for the first time. The editor has tried to restore the titles of the degrees...
...should be placed in an insane asylum. Then comes a long lesson in spelling, as an unlucky exchange has spelt. "Niagara" "Niagra." And the exchanges end with a biting piece of satire on the Dartmouth, and a hint that its poetical editor, and, indeed, most college poets, had better "learn to handle a shovel or do chores." Verily we tremble in our boots...