Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...responsible for the greater part of the muffing, is, to say the least, very encouraging. The batting of the Nine was certainly very good, and as this has hitherto been considered their weak point, there is cause for congratulation. It is evident that the members will play together much better than the Nine of '74, and will consequently raise their fielding average...
...race between the Trial Fours on Saturday was not a great success. The water was very rough, and although the race was rowed, it hardly served to show which was the better crew of the two. The boats crossed the line at the finish full of water, and with their bows almost even, Wetmore's crew leading the other by perhaps a foot. Several of the crews which went down to see the race came to grief on account of the roughness of the water. In making their landing at the Union Boat House, the Holyoke four swamped, much...
...better still...
...better than a soul quite plain...
...programme of the Annual Malvern College Concert are those of Donizetti and Diabelli, who have one selection each out of fourteen numbers. We think with complacency of the selections from Mendelssohn, Haydn, Weber, and Wagner which filled the programme of our last concert. The poetry in the Malvernian is better than that in most of our English exchanges...