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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...arranged in the same order as the letter-press description, and the map of the Yard is so numbered as to enable the visitor to make its circuit with the book in hand, without being confused by the mystical directions that are found usually in guide-books. A better selection of college interiors than in the last edition is noticeable in the present volume...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...hour a week, or, in the case of Fine Arts 2 and English 6, one hour a fortnight, in common. If the student, in laying out his college course, has planned to take these two electives in his Senior year, what is he to do? Is it not better to take them both, even with the inconvenience about recitation, than to give up either entirely? There are but few electives in which a diligent student will find an occasional absence from recitation an irreparable loss, and these few he naturally will favor in case of a conflict. In short, this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

Bicycle Race. - It is to be hoped that this race will fill well, and that all those who start will finish. A race is never won until you've passed the post, and even if beaten it looks much better to see a man ride his race out pluckily, and not give it up because he is not ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

NOTWITHSTANDING the cloud of difficulties that seemed to hang over the H. A. A. a few weeks, ago, some light seems to have broken in on it at last, and the prospects of a very good meeting at Beacon Park are becoming hourly better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...wonder if we shall have better weather tomorrow than we've been having lately," I said in an inviting tone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE BELL THINKS OF PRAYERS. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

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