Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...only just to the Pierian to say that their performance at the Harvard Theatricals was remarkably fine; their playing this year is much better than ever before...
...Little Game, which, though performed before, will well bear repetition. Mr. Woodcock excelled, as usual, putting a zest and nature in his acting which did him credit. Mr. Larkings seemed at home with his eyeglass, and self-possessed, though had he slightly raised his voice, he would have been better heard. The ladies were very good; their parts were well acted and showed study; a little more freedom in the pose of the arms might have improved the effect, still we have no fault to find, and compliment them on their costumes. Mrs. Carver appeared well in her rather difficult...
...that hardly need refutation in the community at large, or in the Eastern colleges of the present day; and almost every one who has any knowledge of the sort of superintendence necessary to an educational institution would agree with the Michigan Faculty when they say that "the university can better afford to be without students than without government, order, and reputation." As to the main question of hazing, let us be thankful that nothing need be said to Harvard readers, and wish for our Western sister as peaceful a settlement of the disputed point as we have had here; though...
...about by time, and at present we have only to think of the successful management of our more humble publication. To this we invite the contributions of those of our instructors who may feel, as we do, that this is a means to the very desirable end of a better acquaintance. Many of the foregoing ideas were confirmed, and some suggested, by a recent talk on the subject with one of our Professors...
...their native heath, they cannot but do likewise if transplanted to a new soil. It must seem strange to a disinterested person that a dying system should be the subject of study; such a person would certainly say that the object of the President's visit might better have been termed the study, not of the system of instruction and general management at the English Universities, but rather of their methods of reform...