Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that it matters at all whether it does or not. But the opposition to the settlement within the University is another matter. The cry of undergraduates for harsher punishment for an undergraduate; the echo in the Bulletin of "the charge that in Harvard College the rich man is treated better than the poor"; are not a little depressing. "The government of a University," says ex-Dean Briggs, "cannot with safety be entrusted to students; they are harsher than their elders and less just to persons whom they dislike." For my part, I would rather be caught, at twenty, lifting...
...driving a sharp bargain with the Harvard Faculty, seems to me entirely misleading. The Med. Fac., as has been pointed out elsewhere, has long been out of date, and knows it. Its older ex-members are undoubtedly anxious to close it out. Its venerable traditions serve nowadays no better purpose than to get venturesome youths into tight places, and fathers of sons don't want them to stay in force. I have no doubt at all that the older Med. Fac. men have jumped at this chance to send the ancient society to its long home. But that can only...
...place in times gone by still influence men of the present day to do things of which they do not perhaps approve. The survival of the "Med. Fac." to the present day is merely an evidence of how tradition lives at Harvard, foolish as that tradition we had better leave far behind us. ANOTHER UNDERGRADUATE
...records were broken. Parsons of Yale lowered the time for the 880-yard run 4-5 of a second, finishing in 1m., 56 s., after leading throughout the race. In the pole vault Dray of Yale cleared 11 ft., 10 1-2 in., which is 3 1-4 in. better than the previous record...
...clock yesterday afternoon the Cornell crew took an easy row over the mile and seven-eighths course on the Charles river. The crew rowed together much better than on Thursday, and Coach Courtney was satisfied with the work. As it is too early in the season to introduce a fast stroke, it is not probable that the Cornell crew will row a much higher stroke than 32 this afternoon...