Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...extensive repairs been made on the Palm-house and its wings, at the Botanic Garden, are completed and the house, which has practically been remodeled, is now better adapted to the tropical plants which are grown there than either of the former houses. A number of interesting acquisitions have recently been placed in position in the central and larger house...
...Blaschka plat-models have been placed on exhibition for the first time. They are mounted on the new style of plaques and have been placed chiefly in the vestibule. A large number of economic specimens, recently received, are also on exhibition and are expected to give far better illustrations of certain orders than has hitherto been possible. One of the most interesting is a large specimen of brick tea, now installed in the north room. Tea of this kind, in solid tablets of great size a method of packing employed in China when the tea is to be transported...
...endowed with one, at least, of many advantages--a little learning, some wealth, a social position more or less assured, and a fair amount of persistence. Four more important qualifications, however, are indispensable to true leadership. In order that he may draw his followers on to something greater and better, the leader must have a definite vision firmly fixed in his thought: he should look forward, not back, and, like Moses, Paul, Napoleon, Bismarck and Lincoln, must be not a traditionalist but an idealist...
...Yale team, which supported the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, That it should be the policy of the United States not to hold territory permanently unless with the purpose that it ultimately enjoy statehood," surpassed its opponents in both oratory and argument and presented a much clearer and better connected case. Both teams were inclined, however, to be somewhat flippant. The judges, Professor John Bassett Moore, LL.D., of Columbia University, Hon. Lucas F. C. Graven, Governor of Rhode Island, and Mr. A. Maurice Low, the Washington correspondent, were unanimous in their decision...
...Bible Student," Bishop John H. Vincent h.'96 considered the attainments which the young man at college should have in mind, and the great part which Bible study plays in their fulfillment. The power of concentrated attention, a broad survey of the fields of study, together with a better knowledge of one's own powers and adaptations--these attainments, said Bishop Vincent, and most of all, intellectual discipline with the aim of symmetrical development, should be the ideals of youth. For mere mental vigor, without a well-balanced conscience, intellect, and will, is of little value...