Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...when he wished his father's tenants a speedy death, as the greatest good which could happen to them. One can almost see the honest British yeomen, wiping the beer from their big mouths, and gazing in stupid wonder at the young philosopher who assured them that death was better than even the roast-beef and plum-pudding of Merry England...
...only hope for better results next year...
...races should be rowed on one principle") as by feelings, customs, prejudices. Every one will allow that races between University, and between College or department, Freshmen are both very good things. But if only one can be had, it is evidently a nice matter to decide which is the better. It appears as if a college might easily be excused for choosing either; but, having made its choice, can it escape blame if it brutally assails another college which with equally good right has made a different choice? The Harvard opinion is, that a Freshman race ought to be conducted...
...that were to have appeared in Advocate or Magenta have never even seen the light of our own rooms! So it is; but let us not despair, even though a condition in Physics is the price of our neglect, for have we not all gained something more, perhaps something better, though we are conscious of it only when the remembrance of some mood or some train of thought of a year ago contrasts it with our present position? If we have not gained much positive knowledge, we have at least got a broader and deeper view of the world without...
...Class-Day Concert, last Tuesday, of the Pierian Sodality and Glee Club was a remarkably successful one. The Pierians, it seemed to us, played quite as well as at the previous concert this year, and the Glee Club never sang better. The successes of the evening were Keler Bela's "On the Rhine" waltzes, the encore to which was the now well-known "Inman Line" march and Titt'l's "Serenade," in which the flute and cornet parts were rendered with an accuracy and delicacy too seldom found in amateurs...