Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...persons taking rooms in Holyoke House or Matthews will be required, if they employ any one, to employ the janitor of the building, to make fires, black boots, bring water, etc. It is hoped in this way to secure better care of the rooms, and to prevent the damage which is often done to the walls and floors by careless scouts...
...weeks ago, has not been answered, and the Freshmen do not seem likely to come to a decision as to the place where they are to row, Cornell being as strongly in favor of Saratoga as we are in favor of New London. The latter course is undoubtedly the better for us, and probably the cheaper for both parties, so that we should be glad if Cornell could be brought to see its advantages; but if she persists in favoring Saratoga, we shall certainly not support our Freshman crew for refusing to meet her there. The challenge stated that "time...
...aware that the Boston University Beacon comes from three miles nearer the centre of civilzation than we, but might we be permitted to ask whether Apollonem is a better form for the accusative of Apollo than the usual Apollinem? The poet, among nearly three columns of whose effusions we find this new Latin word, also publishes a poem the first line of which...
...Paul's School, Concord, N. H., the Vindex, St. Mark's, Southborough; and the Critic, Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven. The first of these is well-managed and well-written, which is more than can be said for a great many of our college exchanges. The Vindex would do better if it confined itself to matters of interest to the school, instead of discussing the "Mode of Electing a Pope" and kindred subjects; and if it did not try to be very funny. As a rival of the Burlington Hawkeye, the Vindex is not a success; as a school paper...
...Oxford crew, although lighter, is said to be much the faster, and rows in better form than the Cambridge crew, which pulls too short a stroke, feathers badly, and is quite slow...