Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fully deserves to be so. But perhaps no society was ever so good that its members did not wish it better; and those of us who have given any thought to the subject must wish that integrity of personal character was more respected, and that rivalry and toadying might be banished from Harvard life...
...architect of Sever Hall might well get some hints for fitting up the professors' retiring-rooms from the arrangements of this car. A silver-plated hook for the professor to hang his hat on would be the first requisite. A nickel-plated lamp would also be very convenient at the four-to-five recitations in winter. Some who now find it hard to get to a nine-o'clock recitation might be accommodated with a secretary that would change into a bed, and this would assure their being on the spot in time the next morning. A silver-plated bath...
...caught in a bridge. At Oxford no mercy is shown to any unfortunate oarsman who gets in the way, and it is the custom to fine heavily any crew that interferes with the course of the University boat. Perhaps the treasury of our H. U. B. C. might be advantageously filled in this way. At all events, if beginners would keep on neutral water, and coxswains would exercise a little extra care, the course of the Crew might be made smoother than it is at present...
Leaving out for the moment the technicalities of the law, there seem to be no strong reasons why some members, although not a majority of the Board, should not be apportioned among different States, according to the number of graduates in each of those States. The advantages that might accrue from such an apportionment are many, while the disadvantages are few and trivial. For, if it is true that the benefices to the University have come for the most part from localities subject to the personal influence of members of the Board, it is reasonable to conclude that, if this...
...year. Perhaps we can pity Swellington if he is fond of liquor; but we have only contempt for Gosling. If all our popular men would realize as fully as many of them do, the trust which their popularity confers upon them, there would be no college reform which they might not accomplish...