Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...grow older," wrote Mr. Brooks after his return from India, when his incomparable experience had finally fallen into place in the perspective of his religious thinking. "The whole of what we personally have to live and what we go out to preach is sympathy to Christ. To grow better and stronger ourselves is merely to draw nearer...
...plays from the toss-up consequently failed to work. Both teams depended almost entirely on individual work, destroying all attempts at team play by long inaccurate shots at the baskets. Griffiths and Burleigh were both weak on free throws, and Brooks who made several attempts from fouls proved no better. Harvard took the lead in the first half through Technology's inferior defense, scoring 11 points to their opponent...
Since the last announcement, the route from Norfolk to Nashville has been changed in order to secure a special car, quicker time, and better hours of departure and arrival. The party will travel in a special through Pullman sleeper from Norfolk to Nashville and return. They will leave Norfolk early Monday morning on the Seaboard Air Line for Atlanta, Georgia, where they will arrive at 7.40 o'clock Tuesday morning. Leaving at 8.45 o'clock, they will go to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where they will stop between trains to see Lookout Mountain and Chickamauga, and arrive at Nashville...
...health of the children in order that they may not be handicapped in becoming good citizens; and when New York City builds new wharves, a second story is added to form recreation rooms for the poor. Is this not pure philanthropy on the part of the State, or better is it not the sign of awakened conscience in regard to the evil conditions of government? The necessity of good government is organized conscience, which would act continuously and forcibly, and would sweep away the corruption...
...returned in short stretches rowing by fours and eights, while Wray coached from a single scull. The work was not as satisfactory as yesterday. Both boats spaced well between strokes. The University crew rowed in much smoother form than the second and the men appeared to catch together better. The float at the University boathouse will probably be in position today and the crews will row on the river regularly unless it freezes over again. There will be no rowing tomorrow, but the crews will report as usual Friday...