Word: betters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Such constitutional measures of reform will be better than a system of responsible leadership...
...team who have yet to learn what training is. Every man must play every afternoon, not according to his own convenience. One promising candidate has already been requested to stop playing because he persisted in giving precedence to minor social engagements. Strict discipline is absolutely necessary, and the better this lesson is learned the more likely is the team to be a winning one. The duty of the eleven is to train faithfully and the duty of the class is to support them loyally both during the practice and at the games...
...convention of college presidents has been held in New Haven for the past two days. President Dwight of Yale presides and the general object of the convention is a discussion of branches of education taught in the colleges. The convention will discuss ways by which a better feeling may be established among the students of the different colleges in place of the rivalry that now exists in consequence of the competition in athletics. The subject of college athletics itself is one of the most important under discussion. The conference may result in the formation of an association of the presidents...
...thesis is not counted he is hardly represented by the hour examinations. Why the thesis cannot take the place of the hour examination we cannot see. The faculty profess the greatest desire to abolish the test system and at the same time they enforce it in courses where better and fairer tests have already been given. The inconsistency is apparent. It is our humble opinion that the examination system, to say nothing of the amount of written outside work required in various courses, is being pushed to an extreme...
...great epic traditions of a nation were born. These epics are not left intact. The Germans in the midst of this period adopted the Christian religion, and abandoned their own religious ideas; with the religious ideas went the poetic ideas, too. But the Icelanders preserved the old traditions better, and Professor Francke analyzed the Elder Edda, and showed how it is a reflex of the time of migration...