Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ought to find some way to improve a system which is subject to two such serious objections. The Freshman class ought to consider the matter very carefully. Why would it not be a great change for the better if the class of 1906 should adopt a constitution previous to their class election which should provide that no man elected to office before the third annual meeting of the class should be eligible for re-election at the expiration of his term. This would bring the class to its Senior election with a variety of candidates more or less trained...
...score of 5 to 1, at the Holmes Field rink on Saturday afternoon. In both games Harvard's team work was good and the playing on the whole showed great improvement over the practice of last week. The game with the Boston Hockey Club was by far the better of the two, and practically a second team played against Technology...
...some other institutions whose circumstances are not similar to ours, and the study of law is no more a reason in itself against playing football than is the study of Latin or of mathematics. We are strong enough to act alone if we want to, but it is usually better to move in agreement with others and sometimes to let well enough alone. ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE...
...makes the playing of a game his life's work, and is believed to have an unfair advantage over a man who is playing the game merely for the sport's sake. A man who has played four years has had more experience and should be better equipped than one who is merely following the regular four year course in college...
...goes to college merely for the sake of playing on athletic teams, better known to college men as a "ringer," is to all intents and purposes a professional, because he is making athletics his one aim in life, and he should therefore be debarred. Thus all eligibility rules point toward the same end. But if a student in a graduate school stands in the athletic world on an equal footing with other athletes; if by playing him our university teams are not taking an unfair advantage over their opponents, the men in graduate departments should be eligible to play...