Word: better
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...commensurate with the purpose with which he enters college. A man should acquire efficiency and habit from a college course. Efficiency brings pleasure with it, and a pleasant life is the most efficient. College is often said to be a place of preparation for life, but it might better be said that college is life under peculiarly favorable conditions. In closing, Dean Fenn referred to four types of students,--one whose ideals are too high to be agreeable to those with whom he associates; another who feels that his poverty prevents intimate friendship with his fellows; the modesty...
...Freshmen who can possibly do so should come out for the dormitory crews which begin work next Monday. This branch of fall, rowing affords every new man an excellent opportunity to obtain preliminary training which will prove valuable when class rowing commences. Upperclassmen who show that they are better than any of the present members of the University squad will be substituted for them...
...ability to row a high stroke and keep it for a long distance, or to raise or lower it at will without losing his rhythmic heat. His stroke was well proportioned and full of life. At that time the crew was rowing as well as if not better than it is today. The Columbia race was won easily by six lengths, the race in itself being no test...
...preparation at a high stroke for the two-mile race with Cornell on May 31. Although the men went to Ithaca confident in their strength, the crew had not shown the improvement it should have since the Columbia race, in spite of the fact that the men were even better together. This confidence either amounted to gross over-confidence or the men overrated their strength. The crew rowed poorly, losing its form in this race, and was consequently thoroughly though not overwhelmingly defeated. Sargent's work in this race was not satisfactory to Coach Wray. After resting a few days...
...quality which has been characteristic of it throughout the season--hard fighting. With the score 2 to 0 against them, and with one bad inning behind them, the men were never unsettled; they played hard and fast, and they played to win. Harvard's pitchers were the better and the Harvard team the steadier. In the words of one of the Yale players, "Harvard had the better team, but Yale had the luck to start with"; the element of luck which favored Yale at the outset was counterbalanced by Harvard's luck later. It is a satisfaction to feel that...