Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Crowninshield's remarks meet my entire approbation, with the exception, perhaps, of that portion of them which relates to the rowing-weights. I can conceive that a moderate use of the weights, or, better, of the rowing apparatus may be useful, and need not be irksome. Just after the selection of the coach of last season's crew, I sat down and wrote out the very same ideas as now appear from Mr. C.'s pen, intending to send the article to one of the College papers; but I desisted for the reasons, first, that I could not write temperately...
...Harvard oar. My fear is that there will be some idiotic idea of improving the stroke by engrafting upon it, and that, should Harvard win the next race, the persuasion of the necessity of starting from a sound basis will be deferred for years. I believe it would be better to select, for the crew, men of suitable physique who have never had an oar in their hands, and to send them to the fountain-head for their rowing education. THIS IS ENGLAND. There is no mistake at all about this fact, and I lose all patience when I hear...
Perhaps a better plan would be to begin with men of the Freshman class who shall not be expected to row in races till the Junior year. This would give them time to mature as to physique, and I deprecate, strongly, the practice of racing colts...
...fashioned people might call this a waste of time; and if your object in life were to become an old-fashioned person, I suppose that it would be so. But the better a man of the world knows life in the world, the better off he is, and the more he studies character that does not know that it is being studied, the better be knows life...
...suggest a game of billiards or cards, I hurried away to make a call in town, thinking that I might be aided in my reform by the elevating influence of society. The conductor on the car passed me by in collecting the fares. Usually I could not be better pleased than by cheating the conductor; but upon this occasion I stepped up and gave him my ticket. A Sophomore called out aloud, "Freshman." A mucker whispered audibly, "Guess he stole it, so anxious to get rid of it." But I did not care what a Sophomore or a mucker thought...