Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore the story which the better half of "Me and Paul" narrated at the Yardling annual was very much apropos. Had wily Scot McKechnie been able to call upon a black Frank Merriwell in the stands, he might well have used the slugger in place of Vincent DiMaggio's fourth appearance at the platter. For after disturbing the ozone on three previous third strikes, Vince was called out the last time...
Inasmuch as the swimming team can hardly think up over the summer vacation any better reasons for its advancement than have been offered in the past weeks, the only possible influence that one can draw from last night's procrastination is that the Team is afraid of an adverse vote in the Council. For if the Team, and the sub-committee of the Council which investigated the problem, are convinced that the case for advancement is watertight, what possible reason is there for temporizing until next year, unless it be that the Team is afraid to run the gamut...
...Johnson is favored to take the 100. His 9.8 in the Metropolitan Intercollegiates last Friday is just two-tenths of a second better than King of Dartmouth, and Millett of Yale have done thus far this season. Not so easy will he find the 220 and the broad-jump, however, for Millett has done 21.4 against Columbia's 21.6, and Ethridge of Yale creates a threat by his 21 ft., 4 in. jump of last weekend...
...jury in the single person of Mr. Moss. For someday the official inquisitor may not be so enlightened a man as Mr. Moss, and the voice of authority may ring out for the abridgement of some less undesirable pursuit than Mr. Minsky's. It would surely set a better precedent to take this matter before the properly constituted judicial body than to let it be settled by the mere fiat of the official inquisitor, quite apart from the fact that burlesque is undoubtedly a blot on the fair name of the metropolis...
...University is to make any real progress in cleaning the grimy spot of Freshman Advising from its escutcheon, something more better than seniors, who are interested in their own problems, out of touch with the Yard, and unused to winding their way through all the highways and byways of the University catalogue, will have to be found. It was suggested in these columns in February that a system of proctor-advisers be instituted,--the men to live in or near the Yard, to be given no more than twenty advisees a person, to have enough authority to make their influence...