Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clock this afternoon. It has been many years since a Harvard nine has defeated Princeton on their home grounds and Princeton's team this spring is well up to the standard of former ones. Captain Dexter's team, however, is a remarkably good one and considerably better, in fact, than the teams which have represented the University in the past two years. It is fast and well balanced, and, with an even break of baseball luck, has an excellent chance to win today's game...
...boat went better than it has for several days past, but there is still considerable room for improvement. Fish alone showed signs of weariness at the end of the two miles, but several of the other men in the crew did not control their slides well. For several days past the crew has lost its unity and the men lately have not been rowing together as well as they ought...
However, the team hit the ball better than they have for some time, and they would have had at least two more hits but for the phenomenal fielding of Merritt and Badger. In the fourth inning, Simons hit to right centre, directly between Badger and Daly. The former after a hard sprint caught the ball close to ground, while running at full speed, and prevented a two-bagger. In the seventh, Merritt caught a fast grounder by Simons directly over third base and fielded it to first before the runner...
...mere member of the faculty it is pleasing to find the editorial dealing, however unfavorably, with a question of instruction instead of athletics. The writer makes pleas for a better supervision of assistants, for consultation and co-operation among members of a department with a view to more effective teaching, and for an official request for undergraduate opinion upon methods of instruction. Such criticism as that made here would be more likely to win a hearing if the writer would first fortify himself with a knowledge of the facts. Assistants are supervised, are sometimes dropped, sometimes promoted. Departments do meet...
...peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles but real languages, and we should think that the teacher could better expound his subject who exemplified this belief...