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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...walking straight I'd better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUMMONS. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

...proved inefficient, in which, too, the Faculty were praised for their moderation and sympathy with the students, himself received a private. It is indeed a censurable act for any one to call a man in the third story to the window by throwing a snowball at that window. Much better in every way, more gentlemanly and more soothing to all in the immediate neighborhood, is it to stand in the yard and shout your friend's name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...make any claims to being religious men, is of as high a character as at other colleges. Certainly, men do not pretend to religion from selfish motives, nor is their piety a hot-house growth. They profess religion because they believe it, and stand by it all the better for the lack of a forcing temperature. The College is a little world by itself, and the bad influences of a world are here, and the good also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELIGION AT HARVARD. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...well! you are better off; you died...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG FROM "LOVE'S PLAINT." | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...instructor is fully persuaded he does not exist, he must 'see through a glass darkly', therefore I most respectfully request the finder to present this money to him for the purpose of buying a new pair of spectacles." The name of the donor was signed, but it had better be omitted here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRANSMITTENDA. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

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