Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University team defeated Bowdoin last year, 2 to 0, and Harvard ought to have an easy victory this afternoon. This game and the one next Saturday against Holy Cross, are the last tow before the Yale series, and the team should bat better than against Columbia Saturday...
...four years, how they could apply the principles and ideals they have learned here in the business world which they are about to enter--in much the same way as president Roosevelt pointed out to us in the Union, some months ago, how college men could and should set better standards and higher ideals in our political life...
...regrets the more keenly the lapse of imagination that compels him to conclude the story by a suicide. The same regret occurs to one in reading Mr. Carb's terrible but effective character study "Leri," though in this case the suicide is not only more clearly inevitable but better justified by the dramatic effect. Mr. F. E. Green in a "Mender of Dreams" has worked out a capital situation with good effect of suspense, and has made telling use of his setting. The buoyant and graceful "travel paper" of Arminius "Concerning Watering Places Mostly German," which alluringly conjures...
...Worcester High School crew defeated the Sophomore eight on Saturday afternoon by half a length, over a 1 1-2 mile course on Lake Quinsigamond. At no time during the race was there open water between the shells and the Sophomores showed much better form than their opponents. The High School crew, however, rowed a higher stroke and maintained it the whole length of the course...
...clock on the University diamond, Soldiers Field. The Harvard team was defeated in the last game by the score of 18 to 11, owing to very poor fielding and inability to hit the ball. However, since that game the team has improved immensely, and should make a very much better showing today...