Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year a new president and keeper has come along, Alan R. Blackburn, Jr. '29, and the cure has been getting better every minute. Witness the Christmas Number, how--as the saying is--on sale...
According to a vote of the administrative board announced by Dean Hanford this morning, all undergraduates whose academic grades at the November reckoning averaged B or better may exercise the Dean's List privilege in regard to the extension of their Christmas holidays. This step is both wise and timely. It recognizes and removes the stigma of illegality from what has been a common practice among men who did not attain official Dean's List ranking at the January or June times of demarcation, but raised the record of their scholastic progress to the required level at November...
...there could have been few better choices. Even if the present publishers modestly assert that they bought a "forlorn hope" that had "no future whatsoever save what its new owners could make for it" it did survive all its misfortunes and is now a national byword when Franklin's inventions are superseded and his diplomacy almost forgotten. It is one of the few times that Fate has done really the appropriate thing. The man who was in some ways the most alive of all his great contemporaries is well fitted in such a living and dynamic memorial...
...West Virginia's illiteracy percentage is 6.4. That is better, however, than the percentage of any southern state, except Maryland...
...salesclerk post, miserably deficient in supporting his family, scorned by relatives and Illinois townsfolk, when the war started. Grant decided he must repay the government for his free, if meager, education at West Point. For months his desultory applications for a command were ignored, but when the need for better generalship grew desperate, a trick of chance politics brought him to the crucial command in Tennessee...