Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There will be no better opportunity this season than is given today to show loyalty to the team. We hope that every man in College will give a ready response to the notice which the cheer leaders have issued...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology. President Lowell, in speaking of the relations of the University to the community, laid special stress on the importance of confining university extension to fields in which the existing resources of the university could be placed at the service of the community. It was much better, he said, to have substantial instruction of a high grade given by a few of the most eminent and stimulating teachers than to have superficial or merely entertaining courses of a popular nature. As illustrations of the better policy he cited the school for industrial foremen conducted jointly...
Again, in 1879, there was a threatened repetition of these horrors. There was a partial blight and many evictions followed. It was then that the Land League was formed by the peasants to try and better conditions. The next year Mr. Gladstone turned his attention to the land troubles and secured temporary relief, by the passage of a bill, until in 1885 the great Land Purchase Act was passed. This measure provided that after the landlord and tenant had agreed upon a fair price for the land they should jointly apply to the state which gave the purchase money...
...little more than a century the Military Academy has sent out nearly five thousand graduates, trained in its strict curriculum, who have held and now hold places of trust and responsibility in official and in civil life. No college can show an equal number of alumni with better average records for public service. It is the West Point that trains men not only in engineering and in military science, but also in discipline and the proper discharge of responsibility, that will be described tonight...
Thayer and Mt. Auburn St. still hold their own as the best of the crews rowing from the Newell, but Mt. Auburn St., the better crew of the two, has been badly shaken up this week by the temporary loss of some of its men to the third University eight. The plans and divisions for the races which begin next Wednesday, will be announced in Monday's CRIMSON...