Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although only one game out of five was won on the lacrosse southern trip, the University team made a better showing than it has for several years. It defeated Annapolis, and lost to Johns Hopkins, Mt. Washington Club, Lehigh and Stevens Institute by very close score. The team scored a total number of 16 points to its opponents' 21, which compares very favorably with last year's total...
...great arguments of those who favor the commission of a few men is that the voter has a better hold on them, and that they can be more intelligently elected. The great body of voters are really ignorant of actual municipal problems, and the only true reform lies in some broadening method of getting the people into closer touch with the city business. The more members of the council, the better the government will be, because more voters will know of its actions. The New England town meeting is the simplest and best form, because of its extreme personal relations...
...Yale-Annapolis race had to be omitted this spring, and for the same reason the navy will be prevented from entering the Poughkeepsie regatta in June. These conditions make the Harvard race of unusual importance to the cadets, and this interest, coupled with the fact that their crew is better prepared than Harvard to row a two-mile race, gives them at least an even chance of winning on the twenty-second...
...logical result of undergraduate reactionary sentiment, when they consider what the team has done in spite of the meddlesome interference of the Faculty and Corporation. Therefore I say instead of dipping a wrinkled thumb into the situation which at the best has been a hodge-podge mess of pottage, better to stand aside in dignified silence and watch. Then if football or any other sport does not by itself earn the justification of its independent existence, by all means step in and instantly abolish. Don't hang another millstone around its neck and say, "Linger on." That is if winning...
Such statistics must be procurable. We cannot imagine that the Faculty is working altogether on vague generalities. If possible, the CRIMSON will procure them for publication, in order that every man may come to a just conclusion on whether athletic restriction will lead to better scholarship, or only to occupations by far less desirable...