Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...graduate work suggest to us in America a warning. We must be careful not to lose sight of our ideals, nor of our general culture in the all-absorbing work of our special research. And yet there is no reason why the advancement of culture cannot go on still better in advanced study than in preliminary academic work. It is not possible for the graduate student to add so-called culture studies to his curriculum; he cannot take a great variety of courses; he must choose his work from one or, at most, two departments. Nevertheless, these conditions need...
...first class condition. A large number of the original weaknesses have not yet disappeared, among which are unsteadiness in offensive play and slowness of the ends to get down the field under punts. The defense, also, is erratic. The line halfbacks are getting into their positions for tackling much better than heretofore, but they do not tackle hard enough...
Bowdoin was defeated last year by a score of 12 to 0, but the team this year is much stronger than the 1901 eleven and should play a correspondingly better game...
...Atlantic Monthly for October contains an article of more than passing interest on "Intercollegiate Athletics" by Professor Ira N. Hollis. The subject is treated broadly; the author not only discusses the restrictions and limitations which have been adopted to better the spirit of college sports, but also inquires into the conditions of American society which have developed the sports of today, and later questions the right of college athletics to the estimation in which they are held. The subject of eligibility is treated in an impassionate and judicial manner which comes as a distinct relief after so much which...
...humor and wild invention. "The Mermaid and the Schooner Scud" is quite as funny, quite as well told, and if possible even more improbable. "At the End of Four Years," signed "Ezra Kidd," gives a new version of a rather common plot, with a technique and setting decidedly better than the common. A mistaken impression that each number must have its quota of verses doubtless led the Advocate to insert such a sonnet as an "August Afternoon on Gay Head...