Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...steady improvement which the University hockey team has been showing throughout the week was evident in yesterday's practice. The forwards not only played better together, but seemed to be more familiar with their individual positions; and the defense, which has been excellent all season, was even stronger than usual. The whole team, moreover, showed a fierceness in attack that was hard to resist. During the practice, a game was played with a team composed of Freshman and University substitutes. The University team easily succeeded in running up a large score, but was itself scored against three times. All three...
...School is much in need of better quarters for the Department of Chemistry, the lack of which will prove a serious hindrance to the development of the School...
...last year, the Dean says: "Inquiry into the origin and record" of these men "yields no clear explanation of their failure; it shows, however, that, if public schools contributed to the Freshman class their usual proportion of between thirty and forty per cent., they succeeded somewhat better than private schools in sending pupils who weathered the Freshman year. Inquiry shows further that, students from private schools in and about Boston have in College peculiar social distractions...
...according to his temperament or his circumstances,--the three years course as one by which, with greater concentration on his studies, he may advance by a year his entrance on professional or special study or into active life; the four years course as affording time for more extended or better digested intellectual work, as well as for the other opportunities and legitimate interests of College life. It would be unfortunate if the three years course should continue to carry with it the implication of over-hasty work, or if the four years course should come to be regarded...
...American colleges and universities could satisfy themselves that success in athletics is not indispensable to college growth, or better still, be persuaded that too much attention to athletic sports, or a bad tone in regard to them, hinders college growth, there would probably result a great improvement in the spirit in which intercollegiate contests are conducted: they would come to be regarded as the by-play they really are, and would be carried on in a sportsmanlike way as interesting and profitable amusements...