Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...renowned Report of the Student Committee. On Education a document which the Secretary introduces as "perhaps the most important achievement of last year's undergraduate body". The inclusion of this survey of modern education is extremely laudable, for the probability is that its conclusion will be more appreciated and better understood by men who have spent a year away from college and who are not entangled in its mechanism to the extent of losing perspective, than by members of the class whose representatives drafted the summary. Fortified with this addition the Report of 1926 may well claim superiority over...
...honors, the most surprising upset of the first day occurred to one of the Californians best runners. Emerson Spencer, generally picked to depose Cecil Cooke, giant Syracuse negro, from his place as the premier quarter miler in college ranks, was forced out of the meet by falling to take better than a fourth in his qualifying heat in the 440, a heat which was won by Swope of Dartmouth in 49 7-10 seconds...
Coach E. J. Brown '96 leaves the choice of shells entirely up to his oarsmen, whatever may be their personal opinion. He feels that they will row better in a boat in which they have confidence...
...race last week by which the McKinlock oarsmen wrested the championship from the other dormitory eights, they covered the three quarter mile course in 4 minutes 7 seconds. This is better time than is done usually by the University eights for the first three quarters of a mile in a two mile race...
...time, has passed; but the mysterious motives of the Soviet Union have not yet been brought to light. The United States, as things stand at present, does more business with Russia than England has been doing with the facilities she afforded the agents of Moscow; and it would seem better to trade ex officio with a viper than to give him headquarters in the official bosom...