Word: better
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Some of the diminution in these figures is not due, however, to the change in the rules alone. The men were better protected last fall than formerly and were required to wear their protections, and it was the policy of the season not to play a man in any way crippled or allow a man to continue playing to the point of exhaustion. These precautions combined with an improvement in the character of the game have eliminated a large proportion of the injuries, which have at times proved incriminating evidence against football...
...build up continue to bear influence long after the men who build them have passed away. We here are building up one of the greatest of institutions, and we must live here and work here in such a way that our descendants--our grandsons and great grandsons--will be better men for our having been in Harvard College...
...question of the Yard dormitories and on the feasibility of a large Freshman dormitory. The possible reorganization of Memorial Hall provides another opportunity. Undergraduate honor, both in and out of the class room, can be materially strengthened. There are those who believe the morality in the community is better today than ever before. It can be made considerably better...
There are two things in this number of the Advocate that are distinctly worth while. The first is an article by a Princeton undergraduate upon that university's preceptorial system; the second, a story by Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez called "A Purple Patch," and much better than its name would lead one to expect. The article gives clearly and persuasively an account of the tutorial method used at Princeton, its faults as well as its virtues, and leaves an impression, strengthened by the editorial, that Harvard would do very well to have something of the sort here, which would give...
...frankly Lampoon verse; "Kipling on a Spree" is much what its name signifies, a rather good imitation; and "Ecstasy," by Mr. Greene, the best in the number for its sure phrasing of the beauty of night, is a translation from Hugo. Surely the College can offer better and more original verse than any of these three printed. But the feeling of disappointment is overbalanced by the distinctly significant work of Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez and the Princeton writer