Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...which none should fail to observe through false modesty or laziness. The question, of course, arises whether caps and gowns in themselves establish a speaking acquaintance between the wearers, and we believe the answer of former classes has wisely been in the affirmative. Certainly their use could serve no better purpose than to bind classmates more closely together during the last few weeks of College...
...main arguments in favor of municipal ownership are that when municipalities manager an industry, they can regulate prices better than a private corporation, and are apt to pay more attention to the health, morality, and comfort of the community. The arguments against it are the probability of increased corruption and financial loss. In regard to ordinary industries we should encourage municipal ownership under three conditions only,--when the trade is such that it tends to become a monopoly, when the trade is one of vital importance to the community, and when a change of prices is apt to arise which...
...work. There is lots of life in the team, and the men are beginning to play with a little more confidence. The hitting has been exceptionally good, no less than five of the players having percentages close to 300 or over; and on the bases the men are doing better. Currier's catching is as energetic and effective as formerly and his throwing is excellent. Briggs fits in splendidly at first and fields his position well, and McCall and Simons around second base are covering even more ground than last year. The outfield, with Captain Dexter, Harvey, and Pounds...
Today, however, the Freshman debaters are carefully coached by an experienced University debater, who, without destroying the individuality of the speakers, trains them in the methods of investigation, argument, and presentation, that go to make up the Harvard debating system. And there is no better means of inculcating that system than by the earnest work, which accompanies any contest with Yale. We trust, therefore, that the debate tonight will be the first of a long and continued series of such contests between the Harvard and Yale Freshmen...
...near-sighted policy, to blindly insist upon the payment of the Stadium debt to the exclusion of improvements and extensions so obviously necessary. We realize that the hands of the present Athletic Committee are tied, but we hope when the new Committee assumes control, it will assert its better judgment, and ask the Governing Board to reconsider their recommendation...