Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman football team was defeated 6 to 0, by Yale on Soldiers Field last Saturday. Although the teams were exceedingly well matched, the Freshmen were a better all around aggregation than Yale and would not have been scored on but for the 100-yard run by Yale's quarterback and even this score was doubtful...
Seven new songs were tried out last night, including the three which were tried at the last meeting. The choruses of the songs were, in general, much better than the rest, and most of them would be more appropriate for football songs if only the choruses were used. "Smash the Line" is difficult to sing, and "Cambridge Town" is complicated by the introduction. "No Hope for Yale" is simple and has swing, but the close is not so good as the beginning. "The Spirit of Harvard" has a good set of words and a spirited close: while the "Harvard Love...
...sing it, and when everyone starts whistling a well-known tune as soon as a new song has been tried, the latter may well be considered condemned. We have a variety of songs which have proved successful in past years, and it will be far better to confine our efforts to them, than to attempt, at the eleventh hour, songs which are failures in the Union, and which would certainly fall flat if tried in the Stadium. One song alone was acceptable, with the exception of those written to tunes which are college classics, and these will only succeed...
...second informal meeting of the Freshman class to enable the members of the class to become better acquainted with one another, will be held in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock this evening. Several members of the class will again act as an introduction committee...
...songs by heart. Many make no effort to do this, trusting that the words will be memorized by frequent practice. The result often is that when the Yale game comes, the new songs must still be sung, like unfamiliar hymns, from slips of paper. If there were no better reason for not putting this off until the last minute, a feeling of pride should spare us the torture of listening to extemporaneous songs...