Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...conservative athletic policy, should be made to put that enterprise on a substantial and successful basis. It is the height of folly to attempt to meet opponents on a basis so different from theirs that practically every effort is doomed to be a failure. A change for the better has been made in this branch of the track work and the results so far have been gratifying...
...songs tried at the last meeting, the "Victory Song" and "Fal-e rah," the opening lines of the latter of which had been rewritten, showed great improvement, but would have gone much better had the words been generally known. Both songs improved, however, during the course of the evening, after repeated encores. Some of the old songs were tried with considerable success...
...reasonably be taken in the remark made by a man of wide football experience after Saturday's game, "That is the best Harvard team I ever saw"? There is no denying the fact that the exhibition of all around football displayed by the University team against Carlisle was noticeably better with the exception of kicking and handing punts than that of any Harvard team as far back as the present board can recall. The most conspicuous element and the most gratifying was the ample evidence of strategic football brains and it was quite as much a triumph for the coaching...
...question is, can the team be kept at this level and in the same competitive frame of mind as on Saturday? Was that merely one of those inexplicable flashes of ability when men do better than they know, better even than those best informed are prepared to look for, or was it an indication of what to expect in the two remaining games...
...Dartmouth game. In one course, and not the largest course in College by any means, no less than eighty men cut before the Dartmouth game. This is no record to boast of from the standpoint of undergraduate zeal in things intellectual and it is to be hoped that a better record will be made this year. The Council is right in its statements and should be supported...