Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...votre, WILHELMINE ELLIOTT.Miss Elliott seems to have devoted more time to the higher branches than to French, and would probably have done better to write her "invitation a la chasse" in Latin or Greek. In these languages, and in the other studies of "Ortonville University," she succeeded so well that she obtained a Commencement Part; and we need hardly mention that her subject was, "Woman in the Professions." We leave her on the point of entering a Medical School, hampered by an erst unfaithful, but now repentant lover, whom she has accepted on probation...
...object of convincing unbelievers in co-education, who, by the by, must not be undeservedly confounded with unbelievers in equal education; but it will certainly furnish pleasant and light reading to anybody who takes it up; and we are happy to state that the author's English is far better than her French...
...crews will be satisfied to use the club boats this spring, and defer the purchase of University shells till next year. A class race, even in our club boats, would be far more interesting than club races can ever be, and would insure the entrance of crews better trained than they have been for the two years past, and class feeling would act as a stimulus to greater exertion...
...time. Henceforth we must look for something else to attack. Plank walks between Matthews and University, complaints about the Library, lamentations over the squeaking boots of proctors, have all afforded stanch material for dissatisfaction to the College papers. While we should be the first to welcome changes for the better in these and a thousand other abuses, we feel we have done as much as we can to bring about improvement, and now we are ready to wait and see what has been effected by the efforts of others...
These extracts will, I think, plainly show that some change for the better has taken place in College rules within the last fifty years, although perhaps they have not quite reached perfection...