Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Tomorrow afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock tea will be served to all members of the Faculty and their families, in order that they may have a better chance of viewing the portrait. The unveiling today will be open to all members of the University...
...sitting at the top of the of the world is a fitting cover for the Class Day Lampoon. On that day, at least, the Senior feels absolute proprietorship of the world and probably of that world's representatives: the sisters and other fellows' sisters who make Class Day "or better Lass Day," what it is. Not yet does he have that sensation of the world slipping from under him that comes on Commencement. But the Lampoon would not suggest sad thoughts so appropriately. The Hero is firmly seated. The color on the cever and as a background of many...
...deplorably slow. The crew seemed to pull well together, but they were unable to travel with satisfactory speed. The Freshman four raced them over the last mile, and won by six lengths. After the change in the afternoon, the crew went only a short distance, but the boat went better and defeated the Freshman four in a short brush...
...were fully half, yes more than that, the better half of college...
...verse is not distinguished. Mr. Rogers's "Ride of the Hill Folk" is well told, but shows the weakness of much verse in the saga form in that it lacks story. Mr. Wheelock's "Serenade" does not show emotion; Mr. Dickerman's translation "Light" shows sensuous color, better at the beginning than the end; the fault is doubtless in the original. Mr. Reed's "Guinevere" reflects Tennyson...