Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...chaplain. Now there are whispers that the exercises at the tree on Class Day are a boyish high-school sort of performance, not untainted with rowdyism, and there are students ready to assert that an exercise which shows us up more in the light of clowns than gentlemen might better be dispensed with...
...that the matter would be fully discussed before the question was decided. He admitted that the action of the last convention had been childish in the extreme; but he thought that the meeting should consider three points: First, Is it right for Harvard to withdraw? Second, Would it be better for her to withdraw? Third, Would it not be better for the general rowing interests of all the colleges that she should withdraw...
This is pretty good; but Columbia can go them several better, the armorial bearings of the latter institution being exceedingly loud. We quote from the Acta Columbiana the following description of its crest: "Above, Jehovah in a glory...
...thing sweeter; snugger, squeezer, kisser, hugger, than another in this world of love and sunshine, it is going to a college mixed. Smiles, sugar, and soothing-syrup, serenades and sadness, study nothing, go among 'em, everything. The old fashion of "going it alone" is played out for the better one of "going it double." Some may take their education "straight," but as for me, "give me 'mix,' or give me nothing...
...looking up), is he here? (Handy elongates himself.) Ah, Mr. H., I 'm glad to see you, sir, glad to see you. (H. blushes.) Well, Mr. H., do you - By the way, Mr. H., how you 've grown! (H. gets nervous.) Yes, Mr. H., you look decidedly, very much better. (H. shakes all over.) Why, indeed, Mr. H., you are une parfaite grandisement. Ain't that so, Mr. H.? (H. says that's not in the lesson.) Ah, yes, Mr. H., that's true, all very true. Well, to come to the point, do you think you know this lesson...