Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...made the first goal for Columbia after 30 minutes of play. A few minutes before the end of the half a foul was called on Houston and Smith made another goal for Columbia, making the score 2 to 0. In the second half the University team played a much better game and Leland succeeded in scoring a goal after 25 minutes of play. There was no further scoring until the last minute of play when Leland made his second goal...
Tonight he is to speak on "Education as a Career," a subject which no one is better fitted to discuss than he. From a small New England university, Harvard has been made a great national institution through his untiring efforts, and the whole spirit of education throughout the country has been improved by his ideas. President Eliot has won eminence in many fields; in education he is pre-eminent. This chance to hear him is a rare privilege...
...future life, not even on their death-beds. There are some people who have simply had enough of life and desire only to rest in oblivion, and others who desire extinction because they have found this life unjust and cruel, and fear that the future one is no better. Again there are those who do not wish to die, and their desire for immortality is merely the expression of this wish...
...might be desirable to repeat life without memory of past existences. This was Nietzsche's doctrine. The early Christian conception of immortality fills one with something like horror. Universal extinction is better than this...
...communication, the members of the University fencing team have to put up with disadvantages which prevent any but the most enthusiastic from taking part in the sport. We do not wonder that the size of the squad appreciably dwindles with the realization of the expenses involved, and that no better record is made in the intercollegiate meets. But the Athletic Committee apparently feels that the general interest in fencing is not great enough to warrant paying the expenses, and until there is a material change from the prevailing conditions, it will probably not change its mind...