Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...High School in the Wellesley Town Hall yesterday afternoon by the score of 20 to 19. Both teams played a fairly fast game, but Wellesley obtained an early lead, which the Freshmen were unable to overcome, although they did some excellent work in the second half. Harvard did the better passing, but the accuracy in shooting of the Wellesley team game them a great advantage...
...second half was faster and both sides showed better team play. Perry made the first score for Yale after a long rush down the rink and a short scrimmage. Lanigan soon after shot a goal for the Freshmen in a similar manner. Just before the end of the game Fels made the last score for Yale...
...athletics. Some examples are the basketball team's lack of a regular coach, and the recent attempt to prevent minor teams from having training tables. Possibly these minor teams are of no great importance, but they interest a sufficient number of men, and do enough good, to deserve something better than systematic discouragement. Major sports meet with the same narrow minded discouragement...
...amendment, and their serious consideration, sure to attend and follow the amendment movement, could hardly fail to be productive of great good. Perhaps but few amendments would be proposed, and fewer still would be ratified. But the entire field would be explored; existing powers and limitations would be better understood; wholesome legislation, national and state, would be stimulated; abuses would be more clearly noted; remedies would be more zealously sought and easier found; groundless complaint would measurably subside; useless, impracticable agitation would diminish; reform movements would gain in practicability and promise; and the political atmosphere generally would be materially cleared...
Both teams started the game with a rush, but the Freshmen soon weakened, and the University forwards scored frequently. Toward the end of the half the Freshmen strengthened, and held their opponents well. The work of the University team in this half was much better than in the second period, during the course of which eight substitutes were put in and the play became ragged. The University team scored three goals during the half, while the Freshmen made...