Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more than a week's lack of practice, caused by the many rainy days of the previous week. We much regretted the injury to her catcher which compelled his retirement from the game, - another example of the fact that misfortunes never come singly. We can only wish them better luck next time. A more extended commentary than the appended score will be unnecessary...
...phraseology is not for us to discuss; we merely wish to suggest a means whereby extensive repairs could be made and to every student's advantage. We claim that it is the duty of the Corporation to provide better means of egress from our dormitories in case of fire. Were a first class fire to break out to-morrow with great loss of life and property, every one would be clamorous for better protection, or, to use a homely proverb, the barn would be locked after the home was stolen. There is nothing in the nature of things...
...putting up" capacity of $20,000. The man, seeing himself surrounded, fled. Pool-selling, recently abolished from New York, is soon to be driven from New Jersey - and that pernicious habit prevalent among the Jersey college men of making pools of ten cents, etc., will have to be stopped. Better back up your Nine." - Courant...
...season, improved every opportunity for practice offered them, and who have labored early and late to put themselves in the best possible condition for the season's work; yet had not the rains of last week prevented the Nine from playing with the Lowells and the Manchesters, a better score in the Yale game would undoubtedly have been the result. The issue of Saturday's game will cause a more intense interest to be taken in the second game with Yale, which will be played on Holmes' Field, June 22. There was one feature connected with the Yale game which...
...year without any intimation of an assessment. Notwithstanding the difficulties in holding the Summer Meeting at Beacon Park, we understand that the entry-book is well filled; and we hope to see a large and fashionable attendance of our fair friends at the Park, where they will find better accommodation than we could have offered them on Jarvis. We trust the result of the meeting may show, in spite of the Transcript, that the youth of Harvard, the flower of the country, has not yet entirely run to seed...