Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...heard about stuffy, unventilated recitation rooms. After a period of examinations, many of which were held in rooms so cold that we could scarcely hold our pens, we are now compelled to sit by the hour in an atmosphere that makes accurate attention well-high impossible. It would be better to sit in our overcoats with good air, than to be suffocated at our work...
Holy Cross played a better all-round game while the Harvard forwards relied too much on long shots which were frequently unsuccessful. Currie played well for the University team and Dowd and Stevens for Holy Cross...
...second half the University team got together better and played a more confident game. In this half Briggs went in for Newhall and later for Hicks while Paine took right end, vacated by Briggs. Hicks made the first goal of the half, and Pell made the next unassisted. The play then became less interesting, and although the University team could not rush successfully, Andover was kept from scoring by good defensive work. In the last thirty seconds of the game Briggs dribbled the puck down cleverly and passed to Pell who shot the goal...
...disappointment in losing a race which, frankly, everyone expected to win, is over. What were the facts? Van Brunt was an experienced runner, the only "H" man qualified to make the relay team and the only one who had had previous experience on University relay teams. He has made better time in the half-mile run than any other man in College. He had had sufficient practice. A bad ankle, which had prevented his training as much as the other men, was perfectly well and did not trouble him in the race; he himself felt in good condition...
Yesterday the University team played much better than on Monday and defeated the second in a long scrimmage, 6 to 1. The forwards played a fast, hard game and the passing and shooting were much more accurate than of late...