Word: better
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...luxurious bindings have been prized from early times, but to attempt cheap imitations by cloth covers emblazoned with all the colors of the rainbow, as is done especially in some recent editions of the poets, is enough to blackball them against admittance into the libraries of persons of taste. Better the old-fashioned, sober, hog-skin cover than the flash and flimsy bindings of some of our modern books...
...thought of their ability to write, we would enjoin the advisability of trying; for the main requisite is to have something to say, and surely among so large a number it cannot be but there are ideas and information for which the college at large would be the better. The success of the college press should be a matter of pride, not to any class, but to the college; and the motto of which the observance would do more for us in the future than any other is, "College, not Class...
...natural for Harvard to keep aloof from anything of this kind, and while we think our players are perfectly right in not being willing to alter their rules (which are undoubtedly far superior to those of the other colleges), still we ask whether it would not have been much better to have sent delegates able to explain our method of playing the game and to make a strong plea for it before the convention. Harvard would not necessarily have been bound to enter into the matches if her demands were entirely disregarded, and if our rules are best the other...
Every robbery and defalcation, from that of the clerk who took the money from the letters in the Post-Office to the more recent case of the Albany cashier, was committed for the selfish purpose of living better. The former bought a house for his parents; the others took what did not belong to them for purposes of rash speculation, or to cover debts. This is the old story over again, - each embezzler meaning to restore the funds, but none doing so. Making haste to be rich, the dishonest inclination to live beyond one's means, to equal or outshine...
...better tongue was told...