Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Devens '32, takes its place beside the immortals of former years. George, Trevor, a recognized critic writing for the New York Sun, compares the Sophomore quartet to the 1929 edition of the Notre Dame horsemen and adds that while football history is studded with backfields as good or better than the "Four Furies" ... "we wouldn't trade Harvard's sophomore quartet for the present Notre Dame array. Mays is a shiftier carrier than Elder and almost as fleet in football clothes...
President Lowell has been named by the "American Hebrew" as one of the three Christians to be honored for their promotion of better understanding between Christians and Jews in America in 1929. President Butler of Columbia and John D. Rockefeller Jr. are the other two. Presidents Lowell and Butler are honored because it was at their invitation and under the aegis of Harvard and Columbia that seminars on Protestant-Catholic-Jewish relations are held during the year...
...their original plans. Now the undergraduate must either refuse to acquire an intimate knowledge of the coming Harvard or accept the usual inconveniences of living under experimental conditions. We hesitate to predict the proportion who will choose the latter course, yet undoubtedly many will acquiesce in it against their better wishes; probably they will squirm under its impositions...
...meet, proposed by Harvard last Spring, will bring together for the first time the leading colleges of Greater Boston. It was instigated in order to aid the promotion of better athletic relations between these colleges...
...Kreutzberg is the better technician--there were few who denied that. His gestures have a definiteness, a clarity, that Miss Georgi's lacked. But inspired as they are in much the same way by the same sort of thing, they make an ideal pair, and Miss Georgi makes up in a fiery temperament what she lacks in technique...