Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...regime where the clubs only appear in the dual concerts two or three times a year, in the Middle West during the Holidays, and perhaps, once in public performance in the spring. They should have a closer connection with the University than that and they can be used to better advantage...
...that employs one hundred men in competitive exercise for a month can hardly be called unsuccessful. One thing is certain: there have never been so many men rowing under any other system in the University as there has been under the dormitory system this year. Until a very much better plan can be evolved, enthusiastic and careful supervision of the dormitory system is likely, to give a large number of men a chance to row for the fun there is in it. After all the plan was started for that purpose...
...whole the plan seems logical. There are certain qualifications desirable in the nominations for Secretary which are as important as in the case of any of the officers or committeemen. This being the case, the more men available for that nomination the better for the class as the chances are in so much better that the Secretary will be well qualified and competent to undertake the responsibilities of permanent secretary. It is usually the case that no matter how carefully the nominations are made there are one or more men, defeated candidates for one position, who would have been more...
...just so much, both to the students and to the governing boards. Even in this regard, what does it matter in the long run whether or not this has been due to the specific recommendations of the Council? The fact that there has been a change for the better is the important thing and it is reasonable to believe that the Council, whose chief reason for existence is that it represents the gathering together and organization of the best interests of the undergraduates which heretofore have been scattered and thus ineffective in many ways, has been of assistance...
...Resolved, That the retirement of Dr. Eliot, president of Harvard University, marks an educational epoch, not only at Harvard and in Massachusetts, but everywhere in the educational world; that his high character and keen insight and wise thought have stimulated and changed for the better collegiate, secondary, and elementary ideals and methods and have initiated an influence that will broaden and deepen as the years pass...