Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with both the mile and the half-mile unless something unforeseen occurs. Second place in the 880-yard run will go to Yale with a hope that J. Morrison, of Harvard, will get third. Both teams are weak in the two-mile, but Yale appears to have the better chances of winning. Harvard should get second and third with C. D. Burrage, Jr., and I. R. Madge...
...should be urged to do so. For that reason the minor sports, or any clean and wholesome sport in which men are interested and which can call out the best players in the University to represent it, should be kept and encouraged, that Harvard may send out men better equipped for life in every way. Applause and enthusiasm are always good things, but what we want are men who have the strength, spirit and energy to win without them. We do not want to praise the losers, they have our sympathy. Victory is the only thing that deserves praise...
These men will have entire charge of the undergraduate situation, and will attempt to bring about a better understanding between the parties concerned. Their object will be to point out to the Faculty and Athletic Committee the reforms contemplated by the undergraduates in their petition and, with this as a basis, to bring about a satisfactory solution...
...affairs is absolutely contrary to what M. Tardieu, in speaking of this University, has called "solidarity ... and the American spirit that inspires every achievement." It is contrary to Harvard's welfare; and can, we believe, be corrected somewhat by the existence of this new committee. We look for a better understanding all around, mutual benefit to be derived but above all we look for a prompt settlement of our woes...
Athletics hold a prominent place, and although their intense worship is an abuse, it is much better than the dissipation of continental university students, and provides a great disciplinary force for American men. Although less scholarly than their European contemporaries, American students are better fitted for life, and in every one of them is a desire to make America great, which makes American universities not only establishments of advanced learning, but centres for the inculcation of the national spirit...