Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boat-house has at last passed out of the hands of the H. U. B. C. into those of the College, and the work of remodelling the building is to begin immediately. The change is for the better, and a new impulse will be given to boating. The Corporation has made no present to the H. U. B. C., but their action is as liberal as could be expected, considering both their own position as to the funds at their disposal, and their knowledge of the manner in which business in general is carried on by undergraduates...
...thorough training. Some suggestions we made last fall as to how this might be remedied, by requirring the ground to be covered in a fixed time, and by handicapping the winners of two or more races. If the idea in these suggestions was carried into effect, there would be better training, better time, and more contestants than during the past. It is idle to expect good time or interesting races as long as the present system is continued. The same men, at every meeting, carry off the prizes with little exertion, while in every race a line of dispirited stragglers...
WHILE in town a few days ago the writer heard much dissatisfaction expressed by a graduate who is prominent in boating matters, on the withdrawal of the late coach of the University Crew. He stated very positively that no better coach could be had in this country, and that the College would suffer very much by losing...
...class which particularly delights the credulous inhabitants of Boston, who, though they are not as a general rule inclined to place implicit belief in newspaper statements, still are perfectly willing to accept as truth any statement concerning college or collegians, and the more absurd and outrageous it is the better are they pleased...
...instances, and if they were all as harmless as this no great offence need be taken (although it must be rather disgusting to students to be held up to the public as entirely lacking in common-sense); but when the zeal of a reporter to supply news gets the better of his discretion, and he indulges in personalities and dispenses information which neither concerns him nor the public at large, then it becomes time for a vigorous remonstrance...