Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...qualifying examinations for the next appointment will probably be held in January. The scholar to be selected after these examinations will go into residence at Oxford in October, 1905. The object of holding the examinations three months earlier than last year is to allow the elected scholars a better chance to have their preferences considered in the assignment of men to the several colleges. Candidates who competed for the appointment of 1904 will not have to take the qualifying examinations over again if they present certificates of exemption from "responsions" such as were given to all candidates who passed...
...have heard little or nothing about favoritism, as a matter of fact, the feeling I have referred to was much less pronounced after the Yale game than it had been just after the Pennsylvania game, and the change in sentiment was due to the fact that the eleven played better against Yale than any one had expected...
...this--it is not a time for controversy. The lesson of the football season is evident; there is nothing new in it, although it seems to have been brought home this fall with particular force. The thing to do now is to unite for the purpose of doing better next year and in the other years to come. JOHN D. MERRILL...
...sometimes ask, without any note of criticism or scepticism, whether nations so uncivilized are in a state to accept Christianity. Were it not better, perhaps, to withdraw American missionaries from China, where their presence has been so unwelcome? It is only those lacking in knowledge who do not perceive the answers to both these questions. To begin with, Christianity has nowhere entered peacefully; and missionaries were not the cause of the late troubles in China, for though they did, it is true, combat the key-note of Chinese peculiarities, it was the commercial greed of alien powers and the political...
...staff, but there must be order and system, and the coaching of an individual player, or an individual attainment, like tackling, or punting, must be through one man who is responsible for that result, and for whom the head coach is responsible to the Harvard world. Many minds are better than one, but disorganization must be eliminated, and those not responsible directly to the head coach must view the practice from the Stadium seats; and in meeting after practice, or otherwise, have their opinions expressed, weighed and adopted, as may seem best to those actively responsible...