Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Advocate says that it would be better to have the pages of the Lampoon blank than to have these pictures on them. So far from agreeing to this, I think that the Editors of the Lampoon have made a very happy hit in giving the features of men known to us all, and putting beneath them lines which indicate the estimation in which they are held by those whom they instruct. Ten or twenty years from now they will be of great value, and if they are ever published, as the verses from the Advocate have been published...
...good effect of the unusually long practice last fall can easily be seen this spring in the rowing, which is much better than that of a year ago; and if the crew can keep the immense advantage they have already obtained over their immediate predecessors, it will be a long step toward closing that terrible gap of June 30; but this can only be done by the greatest care and perseverance on the part of each individual in the boat. With the exception of stroke, they lack strength on the catch, and almost every man uses his arms too soon...
...these selections were severely classic, such as Thomas might have put on his own programme. But to do such music perfect justice requires more time, labor, and exclusiveness of devotion on the part of the orchestra than men in college can well afford to spend. Wouldn't it be better then for amateurs to have less of the classic and a little more of a lighter school...
...World's reports of college doings grow better and better as the weeks go by. The one who has charge of that department seems to understand what he is talking about; the arrangement is always good, and the facts are never twisted. The same may be said, negatively, of the Transcript's reports...
...buildings everything is musty and shabby. In the new everything is so new as to give a cold and cheerless aspect to the rooms. Further, in the new buildings at Yale the rooms have no open grates, but are heated by close and unhealthy steam-pipes. Is it better to pay a few dollars less and spend your evenings with your feet on a hot iron pipe instead of at a homelike grate...