Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Obviously the Association of Harvard Chemists is fully alive to the fact that it has a double responsibility and the present gift is a material witness of this consciousness. Money in any form always has a ready welcome, and it is difficult to imagine a better stipulated use than that of buying books. The Chemical library has found adequate and very handsome quarters in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, which-bring with them the demand that proper books be forthcoming to fill the shelves. It is very fitting that one of the earliest steps taken to fill this need has been made...
...public has the college man all wrong. We, his teachers, know him better. I have been glad, also, to see that in all the letters disagreeing with me--agreements and disagreements are running about 50-50, which shows that I opened up a real problem and not a mere space filler--only one of the letters to date has been abusive. The rest have been beautifully courteous and reasonable...
Again the Reading Period has been pronounced an official success, this time from the medical point of view. In support of the thesis that the health of the undergraduate body had been better during the pre-examination respite the Department of Hygiene cites the figures for excused absences during January and May 1928. Upper-classmen show the most remarkable improvement, while the first-year men, who come under the influence of the Reading Period only in exceptional cases, have been little less sickly than during the days before the innovation...
This will be the last exhibition put on during the college year. It will remain on view during the better part of the summer, certainly until after the Summer School visitors have departed...
...where are they to fit in the scheme of things? Obviously they overlap the price classes of other members of this quality group and old heads engaged in the business of selling cars as well as spotting them will be hard put to it explaining just why one is better than another. Things have gotten so fine that the very difficulty of making a decision even when assisted by the gratuitous advices of well groomed salesmen may prevent the purchase...