Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that Mr. Montague is one of the very best types of Southern gentlemen I have ever met: a gentlemen of great culture, of high ideals, a fascinating personality, and a finished and eloquent speaker. One of the great needs of our country is that the North and South should better understand one another. Harvard University could desire no better interpreter of the best ethical and political thought of the South than it will have in Ex-Governor Montague. LYMAN ABBOTT...
Towards the end of the Middle Ages, work began to be paid for in money, and this work was paid better than in the fourteenth or even in the nineteenth centuries. Laborers were paid better than servants, but with the advent of the present social system and the growth of luxury, the conditions became reversed...
About 140 graduates and undergraduates of the University who are interested in engineering will attend. Since there is now no general organization of Harvard graduates in the profession of engineering, it is proposed that this dinner shall be devoted to the discussion of means for promoting a better organization...
...University, who now are known to be interested in engineering. Over 50 have already accepted. Since there is now no general organization of Harvard graduates in the profession of engineering it is proposed that this dinner shall be devoted to the discussion of means for promoting a better organization...
...though Cambridge was made the better by his actual presence and is the more famed by his memory, the diocese of Longfellow is bounded only by the limits of the language in which he wrote. For the spirit which inspired his poetry was that of the sweetness and peace and good will for which the whole world longs. Walt Whitman, with a genius of a different order from that of our poet, said well concerning him: 'I should have to think if I were asked to name a man who has done more and in more valuable directions for America...