Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...judges, the question as to whether or not a single-sculler should be sent to Saratoga was brought up. Harvard has been so feebly represented in this part of the Regatta during the past few years, that every one must feel that it is better to send nobody than one who is but a moderately good oar. Besides this, the price of a shell has to be considered in a year, when the cost of our summer's rowing will be nearly double what it was last year at Saratoga...
...meeting of men, many of whom are smoking, is another source of danger, while the inflammable material which collects in society rooms spreads the fire rapidly, and puts the whole building in danger. For these and other reasons, the authorities have made up their minds that it is better to have the societies outside of the Yard. Having made up their minds to this, they have exerted themselves to make the societies as comfortable as possible somewhere else. Associations with old rooms they cannot transplant, but what can be done they agree to do. The only expense to which...
...than usual. There was a series of fouls in the six-oared race, although there were two stake-boats. In the four-oared race the rowing was only tolerable. The fact is that the whole system of conducting scratch-races is bad, and we can never hope for anything better until it is changed. The crews, by some plan or other, ought to be chosen at least a week before the race. Even if the regular club crews entered, it would seem desirable, although it has been objected that then all interest would be centred in the scratch...
...Faculty of Dartmouth were presented with copies of Milton's "Areopagitica," some good might be done. But possibly they argue that although in Milton's time it was held that the publication of truthful statements harmed no one, it is now an enlightened age, and we know better...
...saloon, become intoxicated and commence fighting, and perhaps kill one another, or get their eyes knocked out, or their teeth punched down their throat. Some men, when they go in a saloon, do not get drunk, but gamble and lose all of their money. It would be better for them to stay at home; for the bar-room is the place...