Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...probably students; and last week an unusual violation of private property occurred in the abstraction of a skeleton from the Natural History Museum. Whether the Faculty have taken any steps to discover the guilty parties is not known, but one thing is sure. Whatever steps the governing body might take against the thoughtless perpetrators of this boyish mischief would be sure to be unpopular among the great body of the students. Harsh measures, as has been well shown on various occasions, only stir up ill-feeling between the ruling and the ruled. At the same time, wanton destruction of property...
...Commencement Day, however, the wearing of gowns is obligatory. By no means do all the students own gowns, but the majority, when occasion demands, hire them from the janitor, who always keeps them on hand, the charge therefor being $1.50 apiece. It seems as though a plan like this might be successfully introduced here in Cambridge, and be a source of advantage to both owner and student, for the former would gain a large percentage on his outlay, and the latter would obtain the necessary garments at a trifling expense. The cost of a cap and gown is, however...
...became curious to know the manner in which New England appeared eighty or a hundred years before his time. He was unable to find any information such as he searched for. He was led to think, therefore, that those who lived eighty or a hundred years after him might desire the same information in regard to the time in which he lived, and he resolved, as far as lay in his power, to furnish this information. Accordingly he carried a note-book with him on his travels, and took down observations on the appearance of the towns and country through...
...guide-post to mark our way. The road we are travelling is a rough one. Barriers in the shape of prejudice and custom delay us; still our progress is steady. On calling his roll, the other day, an instructor remarked that the process took up time that might be employed much more profitably. He held out hopes that the time was not far distant when it might be done away with entirely, and Juniors and Sophomores, as well as Seniors, would no longer be obliged to attend lectures or recitations by threats of punishment for their absence. We would...
...poet, "How long, O Lord, how long!" Money is one of the necessary evils of this life, and it needs no argument to show that the various interests of the College cannot stand without subscriptions. For all that, the thing is not to be pushed to extremities; and it might be well for the promoters of the next grand scheme to consider whether our long-enduring community could not manage to exist without that particular sport or what...