Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...twenty inches. It will have a speed of nine miles an hour. During the past winter, a new ice-house and a cold storage plant have been built near the lake, and a stone pier extending from the camp to the lake. With these improvements, the camp will be better able to carry on its surveying work during the coming summer...
...aimed. The case of the affirmative rests upon the contention that the law must be enforced, simply because it is law. But we believe that the object of law is to secure certain effects, not the observance of certain forms, and the desired effects will be better secured by the judicious enforcement of the law than by strict enforcement, as was strikingly shown by the Society for the Prevention of Crime in Buffalo...
...regard to others? Non-enforcement means blackmail, because it means the exercise of discretion by patrolmen, and it means the disregard of law which breeds lynching and anarchy. Strict enforcement means the setting of a true example of respect for law, and making the people better citizens...
...working hard. He does not step out well to meet the ball, and does not coach and stir up the fielders enough. He is a fair batter. E. W. Leonard '03 steps out well, but is slow on his feet and lacks life. He is a fair better. J. D. Clark '03 is careless, and weak on low balls. In batting he settles badly, and does not pick the balls...
...team has been able to practice on the ice for two weeks, so that the team work will probably not be as skilful as in the game three weeks ago, when Yale won 4 to 3. Yale has lost Inman through injuries, while the Harvard team is in even better condition than when it played Princeton; the game, therefore, should be close with the chances slightly in favor of Harvard...