Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Putnam '62, Curator of the Peabody Museum, has been given by him to the Museum. The collection illustrates the life of the primitive tribes of the islands as well as the so-called Filipinos, who are really a mixed foreign stock, probably of Malay and Chinese origin. The better part of the collection illustrates the former, the Negrito, Igorot and Bagoboo tribes, each being represented by a few specimens, while from the Moros there is a fairly large collection. The articles are utensils of daily life, such as wicker baskets, spears, agricultural implements, and also several small models of houses...
Tonight, at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum Professor Simon Newcomb '58, LL.D., of Washington, will deliver a public lecture on "The Diffusion of Economics knowledge." He will consider the benefits that would follow from a better understanding and appreciation of economic principles by the general public...
...will speak informally before the Seminary of Economics in University 23 on "The Development of Economics as a Branch of Exact Science." The talk will be open to members of the University. At the public lecture on Tuesday Professor Newcomb will consider the benefits which would follow from a better understanding and appreciation of economic principles, and will also say something as to the attitude of the general public toward economics...
...lifetime spent in finance, Mr. Gage is particularly well qualified to discuss this question. For five years he served as Secretary of the Treasury under President McKinley and President Roosevelt, and during that time repeatedly proposed alternations in the banking laws that would make currency more elastic and better able to respond to the periodic fluctuations and sudden emergencies in the money market. Mr. Gage has also been president of the largest bank in Chicago, three times president of the American Bankers' Association, and is now president of the United States Trust Company in New York...
...still uncertain on short throws to the second baseman and shortstop. There is a tendency to stand squarely on the bag in executing the double play, instead of on the near corner. Practice was held for the first time last week on a complete diamond, for the purpose of better instruction in stealing bases. The work in this direction is still rather crude...