Word: betters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...notice many changes in the elective pamphlet for next year and on the whole they are for the better. Special attention has been paid to several popular and important courses, so that they will not conflict, as was the case in this year's arrangement. We welcome the changes in the German department. With the new courses and an additional professor, and, we hope, a special German library, this department will be very strong...
...hands of a team which includes four men who are to represent Philadelphia in England this year, is no disgrace, and the practice obtained by playing against Pennsylvania's strong bowlers will be an invaluable preparation for the game against Haverford next week, when we may hope for better success...
...98.The Harvard Shooting club shot its first match with the Yale Gun club, Saturday afternoon, on the club's grounds at Watertown. Except for a strong wind, the weather was perfect for shooting, and even without the wind it is extremely doubtful if the scores would have been much better. Both teams shot well, the Harvard team better than ever before. At the start, Harvard took the lead, and kept increasing it at every round. In the fourth round, the Yale team did very good work, but it was of no avail and Harvard finished winner by twenty three birds...
...whole, uncommonly brilliant. Harvard, therefore has the satisfaction of knowing that, even though she lost the cup it was lost to a series of exceptional contestants. The showing, however, of the Harvard men was good, and but for the unfortunate mishap in the bicycle race would have been even better. There is a strong probability, in fact, that Harvard may yet, by winning the bicycle race, take second place in the games...
...Morgan said that in youth Euripides was a successful painter, but as he grew older he was led through by philosophy into his proper field, tragic poetry. But the knowledge he had acquired when a painter, and the ability thereby gained of better appreciating the whole scope of art were of the greatest value to him as a dramatist. Through all his great tragedies he is constantly viewing things with a painter's eye, which gives to them a greater unity and a higher artistic merit. All of the dramas of Euripides, with one exception, were composed after the completion...