Word: better
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Committee means only that Harvard establish universal service among its students, as an example and inspiration to the nation, the Committee might better have said so unambiguously. That would at least be a proper recommendation and profitably debatable. WILLIAM GORHAM RICE...
Germany is not yet dead, and the sooner everyone realizes it the better. By just such tactics, by playing on the sympathy of "soft" American hearts will she, unless sternly checked, win back little by little that power which cost so many lives. Only a few weeks ago. It was reported that Von Hindenburg addressed a tremendous gathering on the necessity of concentrating attention on the next "test of strength." While the rest of the world is playing and striking, Germany is working and whining her way into power--a dangerous omen for the future...
...oath that the workers received from five to fifteen dollars a day. Increasing this wage by sixty percent would, in a short time, at the expense of the public, breed a new stock of millionaires of the leisure class. Do the mine workers really believe they are going to better their conditions by their demands? Do they not realize that the loss they produce, the less other industries will produce? Scarcity of production and our heavy shipments to Europe are the underlying causes of the present high cost of living. For the strikers to decrease production still further is doing...
...Harvard undergraduates are to have class officers at all, they must be elected by the classes. But if no more than twenty per cent of the eligible voters care about who their officers are, it is better not to have any elections whatever...
...interest in class affairs must surely arouse the indignation of all undergraduates. Whether the fault lies in the method of nomination by outgoing class officers and supplementary nominations by petition, or inherently in Harvard students, let it be remedied immediately. If nominations in a general class convention would be better, let the change be made; if a system of having candidates named and seconded in primaries, thinned out by direct voting on the convention ballot, and four or five successful names placed on the final, ballot, would prevent such a shameful showing as on Tuesday, let us adopt that system...