Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...large score of the Freshmen was due to the poor pitching and fielding of their opponents rather than to any good work of their own. In the third inning Allyn, the Volkmann pitcher, was knocked out of the box, and Briggs, who was substituted for him, was little better. The fielding of the Freshman team was poor and at bat ten men struck out. Marsh was hit very freely but Lincoln, who replaced him in the fifth inning, allowed only two hits for the remainder of the game which was called after Volkmann's half of the eighth inning...
...upstream over the mile and seven eighths course late Saturday afternoon, the second University eight defeated the Senior class crew by about three-quarters of a length of open mater in 9 minutes and 55 seconds, which was very good time considering the weather conditions. The Seniors showed the better from, but were possibly affected to some extent by the fact that it was their first hard row, and they were not to fresh as the second University crew, which had been towed by the launch the three and a half miles to the starting point. A gain...
Throughout, the game was a pitchers' battle between Coburn and Skillen in which Coburn had the better of the contest. He struck out 12 men and allowed only one hit and one base on balls, whereas Skillen allowed four hits, three of which were in the eighth inning, hit a man in the same inning, and gave a base on balls. He struck...
Boston has a negro population of 15,000. Cambridge has nearly 5,000 more. There is opportunity right here, therefore, for study of the "negro problem," and there is great need of effort to better local conditions...
...Exeter. The Freshman team, composed of J. S. Davis, B. M. Nussbaum, and E. R. Lewis, supported the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the trusts should be regulated by federal legislation." Although divided in their decision, the judges agreed unanimously that the Freshmen had the better form. The judges were Professor I. L. Winter, Hon. J. E. Young, and Hon. E. G. Eastman. They were out thirty-three minutes...