Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recognizing these facts, the Harvard Botanical Garden began its research and experiments in the hope that better varieties of cane might be developed. This work as a whole has been very successful, not alone in producing improved varieties for the shallower uplands, but also in developing varieties better adapted for the fertile lands, several of which have already been recognized as excellent for commercial cultivation...
...batting averages of the Harvard baseball team took a twenty-point drop in the last five contests to fall from .329 to .308. Better hurling from the pitchers the Crimson batters have had to face has continued to bring down the high averages early season batting sprces gave many of the players...
Another "bigger and better" Red Book makes its appearance tonight, on time to the minute. Producing the volume exactly on schedule is no easy feat, in view of the short time allowed the editors, but promptness is perhaps the least cause for their pride. For the 1931 Red Book is superficially far different from its predecessors, and is on the whole among the most artistic creations printed in the 19 years since Red Books first began...
...almost to indicate divine intervention on the behalf of the students. For what less than a gift of the gods is the arrival in Boston during the weeks that lectures are suspended of such an abundance of dramatic offerings as the present spring has produced? That crusader for the better things of the theater. Walter Hampden, has already done successful battle with Shakespeare, Then and Browning and departed for other regions. Eva in Gallienne, leader of the New York Civic Repertory Theater, sill touches the tragic depths at the Hollis, and to descend a moment from the sublime, last night...
...other side of the difficulties of the Freshman year more definite measures are possible. The remodelling of a large number of Freshman courses on the History 1 plan of division according to ability would be most beneficial. Not only does this plan relieve the better men from the boredom of proceeding at the pace of the poorer, but it also provides the poorer with instruction definitely suited to their capacity...