Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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What reason is there for making such a restriction upon a valuable elective? Seniors may be better fitted for it than Juniors; but, also, Graduates are better fitted than Seniors, and the elective might be placed among the Graduate courses. There is no danger that the elective will be overcrowded, since the instructor retains the power of limiting the number who take the elective. The same reason will shut out any men who, having the gift of talking indefinitely without much thought, think to find this course a soft elective...
...regatta comes off so short a time before Henley that it will be next to impossible for the winning crews at Watkins to enter and start at Henley. Besides, this arrogant committee reserves the right of rejecting any entry! So that a crew on the eve of the race might find itself ruled out, and no reasons assigned. Truly English love of fair-play has been sadly overpraised...
...that, had such a meeting taken place this year, it would have proved the best ever held at Harvard. But, unfortunately, it cannot be; Jarvis is in a too tender state to admit of even laying a track on it: the sod must first grow thicker, or the field might be ruined for the future. Every one who was present at Beacon Park last year will see the absurdity of attempting another meeting there. It is too far distant to induce men to take advantage of its track. So there is nothing to do but to fold our hands complacently...
...might the happier live...
...aware that the Boston University Beacon comes from three miles nearer the centre of civilzation than we, but might we be permitted to ask whether Apollonem is a better form for the accusative of Apollo than the usual Apollinem? The poet, among nearly three columns of whose effusions we find this new Latin word, also publishes a poem the first line of which...