Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lawyer Hope was much in the company of fellow-Manhattanites who were standing pat for Coolidge, groaning over Hooverism. When Jeremiah Milbank of Manhattan, one of Lawyer Hope's great & good clients, was made Eastern Fiscal Agent of the Hoover campaign, Lawyer Hope and many another Manhattanite felt better. Now, 16 months after Kansas City, Lawyer Hope is well content to have direct supervision of: Internal Revenue collections, national banks (through the Comptroller of the Currency), the making of all money, the Secret Service...
...matter how strong this backfield may appear on paper, little may be expected from it if the line does not show to better advantage than it did against the Army and Dartmouth. The line makes the backfield, as the Green forwards proved so conclusively last Saturday. Kuehn has won the race for the right tackle berth and the 190-pound Sophomore will be starting his first game for the Crimson...
From a total of 843 new Freshmen admitted to Harvard College this fall, 170 are exempt from the requirements of English A-1 by virtue of having received a grade of 75 per cent or better in the English College Board entrance examination, or by gaining special permission from the department to take a more advanced course of instruction...
...theory behind this experiment is in line with the modern tendency in education and for the practical application of the principle no better field could be found than Harvard University. The vast resources for research, and the presence of a faculty which is second to none in this country marks this college as one in which a student would be able to utilize his opportunities to the utmost...
...glad to do so long as the cost was thus defrayed. After a while the Committee became weary of raising subscriptions, and last spring it was decided that in view of this fact, and of the comparatively small scientific value of horticulture to the University, the Garden had better be used for scientific purposes. The direction of the Garden has, therefore, been transferred to a member of the Department of Botany, Dr. R. H. Woodworth, who will use the small income of the endowment for the benefit of that Department...