Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first of the games for the class lacrosse championships yesterday afternoon, the Sophomores defeated the Freshmen by the score of 8 to 2. The Freshman team was seriously handicapped by the loss of Radford, Leavitt, and Walker, three of the better players, but played a hard game, especially in the first half. After the game F.C. Alexander was elected captain of the Freshman team...
...real College it must give more than it gets, and the idea of trying to make the books balance in cold cash seems to me rather foolish. It rather smacks of too much commerciality in a place where we are supposed to care for better things...
What a man gets out of living in a College dormitory cannot be measured in dollars and cents. If the Corporation intends to give the best to the students it should give them more and better College dormitories even if it should prove a poor financial investment. As I said at the beginning it does not seem right for the President and Fellows to look at the question of Yard dormitories in such a coldly financial spirit...
...catching flies on the Freshman diamond. The pitchers, who had heretofore used nothing but straight balls, when pitching for the batting practice, began to mix in curves. As a result the pitching was unsteady the first of the week, but during the last two days the control was noticeably better...
...melodrama by continual overemphasis. He is potentially the best actor in the cast, but fails to "arrive" on account of such faults as a noisy and meaningless spatting of his hands and a reluctance to let go of his consonants. F. M. Gunther '07 proved himself worthy of the better acting chance furnished in the burlesque, "The Goirl of the Golden Pest," by his not too emphatic satire of the matinee idol. It was a piece of mock heroics all the funnier for being in restraint. The palm for genuine acting, however, must go to the player of a subordinate...