Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...line men were drilled in breaking through and in passing the ball to one another while running. Grant and Nourse, the centres, practiced passing the ball back for punts, aiming at a chalk bulls-eye on the wall of the Stadium. In this work, Nourse seemed to have the better direction and greater speed...
Last year a half-ton of clothing, and one and a quarter tons of books and magazines were received. The better clothes were kept at Phillips Brooks House for distribution to such students as needed them. The rest of the clothing was distributed, a case each, to the following institutions: Spring Street Neighborhood House, New York; Cambridge Associated Charities; St. Vincent de Paul Society, South Boston; McAuley Water Street Mission, New York; Morgan Memorial, Boston; St. James' Parish, North Cambridge; Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; Seaman's Friend Society, Boston; Salvation Army, Boston...
...Although Yale's offense was stronger than the Army's, the latter's defense was so good that Yale could make no consistent gains. The result was that a punting contest ensued between Coy of Yale and Beavers of West Point, in which Coy averaged slightly better than his opponent...
...Navy's territory in Harvard's possession, only to be lost on an intercepted pass or kick, and then the condition would be reversed. This continual punting and passing caused many careless fumbles on both teams, with the Navy the chief offender. Harvard followed the ball far better than the Navy and recovered fumbles to good advantage...
...University is to be congratulated on the splendid gift of Massachusetts woodland which adds an almost perfect equipment to the present organization of the Division of Forestry. Coming at a time when the Graduate School of Applied Science is taking its bold but confident stand for a better system of professional education in applied science than the community has yet known, this generous gift, mainly the contribution of a young Harvard graduate, will do a great deal not only to promote Forestry but also to strengthen the position of the School of Applied Science throughout the country...