Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University to foster patriotism; but it will do this best by insisting that patriotism is to be identified with the good citizenship for which it is aiming to train its students, rather than with demonstration of the torch-light order. There may be left to others who have nothing better to do. The idea that victory over Yale would result from having a larger number of students present or in walking through the streets of Washington first, is a curious survival of Mediaevalism and of childishness, which, it is hoped, Harvard men have outgrown. I cannot but hope that Harvard...
...Christian Association. The 70 books bought a few months ago have been added to by numerous gifts, and a very good juvenile library of about 430 volumes has been collected at the reading-room. Perhaps to the scope of the influence and work of the reading-room no better testimonial is needed than the fact that its membership roll of 250 was made up almost immediately and that 75 children are now on the waiting list. A reading club and an athletic club, under the direction of Harvard men have been organized among the children...
...hockey game with the Graduates' team which was scheduled for today will probably have to postponed until the ice is in better condition. No definite date has been fixed for the match, but it will be held as soon as possible. The team has had no practice during the last week...
...principal part of the collection was presented to the Department by Mr. Alexander Agassiz a number of years ago. About two years ago Mr. Elliot C. Lee '76, gave the sum of $3,000 for the construction of cases, in order that the fossils might be better preserved and arranged. The collection is now palced in seventy-five cases, with a holding capacity of 1,514 trays. Of these, 1,167 were filled when the last report of the collection was made, a year...
...light, preventing any proper appreciation of the new paintings, which must be hung on the walls. Professor Moore recommends the construction of a new higher roof, and the removal of the present horizontal ceiling,--changes which would at once give sufficient light and improve the appearance of the building. Better facilities for unpacking and storing objects for which no permanent place has been arranged, would greatly enhance the convenience of this work...