Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...German boy promenades the streets in droves, although now less than he used to do; but the English boy plays games of afternoons. What a blessing it would be if the lookers on could be shoved out of the Stadium and set to work at some game! How much better they would like it! It is not from choice that they keep their seats...
...University team has been improving slowly and still lacks the finish acquired by practice. The team play, however, is better than at this time last year and gives promise of good development. The defence is weak, the guards not covering properly, and the forwards still lack accuracy in throwing baskets and in scoring fouls...
Although the Naval Reserves this year have a strong team and have defeated Pennsylvania and lost to Columbia by only one point, the chances of the University team are good, as the men are in better condition than at the opening of last season. On the whole the team is better on the offense than on the defense. Not withstanding the fact that Captain Henderson has been absent from the line-up much of the time, the shooting and team-work have developed well...
...spirited practice game yesterday afternoon the University team easily defeated the second team by a score of 5 to 1. The work of the first team was a decided improvement over Thursday's practice. The forwards, despite the absence from the line-up of wilder and Macleod, showed much better team work, kept well together on the offense and skated fast. Their passing was fairly accurate, but owing to the snow, the shooting was weak. Especially noticeable was the improvement in the first team's defense, Newhall and Grant repeatedly preventing the second team forwards from shooting...
Finally we cannot but send Lampy a Christmas greeting of compliment upon his good intentions. For better or for worse, he at least put up a plucky struggle to be bright and cheerful under the adverse circumstances of fortnightly publication in a commonplace age, unresponsive to the search for the picturesquely ridiculous...