Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...believe it would be better for athletics and for the universities if graduate students and students in professional schools were not admitted to the teams. In saying this I do not forget that some of the most skilful and loyal Harvard players have been members of professional schools, and that the best intellectual work done by a member of a Harvard team within my memory was done a year ago by a member of the best football team the University has had, who was then a Medical student and had once been a member of another university...
...Seniors won both matches in the final fencing tournament last night by defeating the Freshmen 8 to 1, and the Law School team 6 to 3. They thus won the interclass championship and are entitled to their class numerals over crossed foils. Both matches were won by 1903 through better control of their points and greater experience in finding openings and placing touches. Each man fenced with three men on the opposing team, thus making a total of nine bouts to each match...
...Seniors argued that while trusts in their present condition are attended with undeniable evils, still the system as a whole is better than that of cut-throat competition from which it stated the trust had sprung through a natural growth. The Seniors submitted that the trust should be considered not only as it exists today but also from the standpoint of the ultimate condition which in the course of natural evolution it will attain. The Juniors objected to this interpretation, arguing that the consideration of the question should embrace only the trust as an actual condition of the present...
...higher standard than in the past, and showed great care in preparation. The mistakes in the second act and lack of smoothness in the presentation of the third act were due merely to the nervousness and novelty of a first performance. The play as a whole will undoubtedly go better tonight and during the succeeding performances, and may well be considered as good a performance of "Le Menteur" as can be seen anywhere outside of France...
...strenuous battle, fiercer than any cavalry charge -- the battle of economics, of society. Its issue will effect the foundations of government and involve all the relations of life. There will be the shadows, the repulses, the defeats, but if you do your duty there can be nothing better...