Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University basketball team was defeated by the Washington Continental A. A. at Schenectady on Saturday night by the score of 20 to 15. This was the second game of the western trip. The game was clean and fast throughout. The work of the team was much better than in the Cornell game on Friday, but the ability of the Schenectady team to get the jump at centre served to keep the ball well in Harvard territory. Gilles played a fast game at forward, throwing four of the five field goals made by the Harvard team. A crowd...
...Foster, although uncertain in his shooting, played a hard aggressive game. MacLeod's shooting was also inaccurate, and several goals were missed through his inability to take advantage of easy chances. The most encouraging feature of the work was the defensive play of the forwards who followed back far better than in any previous game, and made it nearly impossible for the opposing forwards to get started. In this department, Foster was a little over anxious to keep up with the scrimmage. No real test was given the defense, but whenever the backs were called upon, their blocking seemed crude...
...University hockey team will play Andover, on Holmes Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Since the return of the men from New York, the work of the team has been far from satisfactory; at times, however, better team work has been developed...
...these men only one or two are of exceptional ability. Although there are a number of other good men in College, they will have to do better than they have ever done before in order to equal the performances of some of the Yale team. Thus Harvard must rely solely on second, third and fourth places, and to win must have a large squad of men who will be satisfied with nothing short of success...
These objections were all refuted by the evidence of the experts employed by the committee. The sanitary question was the hardest accurately to determine, but from a long series of experiments it was conclusively proved that the proposed dam would materially better the existing conditions...