Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both teams have complied an unenviable record thus far this year, but the Elis rank a shade better on comparative scores. The convincing victory of the Blue Freshmen over their Nassau last Saturday makes them a decided favorite. Harvard has nary a victory to its credit, its closest semblance to a conquest being at 7 to 7 tie with Exeter, who by a turn of fate nosed out Yale...
...list of 157 Freshmen who passed their entrance examinations with an average of 80 per cent or better is printed below, by authority of the Committee on Admission. The school which led in the number of graduates appearing on this list is Boston Latin School, represented by 46 members of the Class of 1933. The next largest group comes from Exeter, with 22; then St. Mark's School with 9; Brookline High School with 7; and St. Paul's School with 7. There are 48 schools represented on the list...
...Tropical Nights", the stage show, starts in like a Hemenway five o'clock gym class but has a bright spot in the appearance of the "Keller Sisters and Lynch" a song and dance team far better than the typical run. There is also an amusing tumbling...
...ensures a catholicity of taste, and the aim of the committee has always been to meet the needs of the present generation of students, as well as to assemble, as far as human fallibility permits, books of permanent literary value. There are few small libraries that can offer a better representation of every form of contemporary literary activity. It is a pity that the Union Library is not more widely known and used. L. Denis Peterkin...
...Violet harriers have a powerful combination. Lerner and Hickey are the best material, the former having placed sixth last fall, while Shapiro and Phillips are very good. Cornell's chief strength lies in Levering, who was twelfth in 1928, and has shown even better work this season. Cornell defeated the Yale runners, 19 to 54, while the Crimson won from the Blue...