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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...young women have done better than that; they have raised the average of conscience and manliness and decency more than ten per cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMEN STUDENTS AT CORNELL. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

...consider the true purpose of the building. It was to perpetuate the memory of the sons of Harvard who perished in the war; but are they more honored in building a grand but useless pile, than in making their monument of some real benefit to the College? It were better to build a handsome granite shaft to their memory, and then expend the rest in founding scholarships, than to sink the whole fund in a useless Babel of bricks and mortar. This monument of Harvard's alumni is no more profaned by the daily presence of her students than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

...only to suggest, in addition to the proposed changes, that the English custom be completely followed, and the absurd rule abolished which prohibits bottled ale or porter at table. These tonics are positively needful to many of the students; and there can be little doubt but what it is better to drink these openly, and at the proper season, than surreptitiously in one's own room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

...committee are liberal and far-sighted in their treatment of physical culture, and this, together with the new projects in this regard of late agitated among the students, will undoubtedly lead to a better state of things. They recommend the erection of a new gymnasium, and even go so far as to suggest the purchase of marsh lands on Charles River, to be drained and diked in the interests of out-door sports. It is also proposed that the College, by the erection of boat-houses, encourage this branch of athletic exercise among the many. Before closing this review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORT OF THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE FOR 1872-73. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

...GRADUATEDEAR SIR, - I have heard of but a single instance, among the young women at our University, of inability to keep well up with the class. As a rule, the young women average about ten per cent better on the examination papers than do the young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMEN STUDENTS AT CORNELL. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

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