Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...practical benefits to business and professional men, we think such an opportunity for the study of elementary law might be afforded us during the undergraduate course, and we are sure it would be a most popular as well as most profitable elective...
...that "Harvard is not a high school." It is also plain that Harvard is not a theological school, although in prayers and compulsory church attendance we are afflicted with two relics and reminders of the time when it once was. Most earnestly do we wish that these interesting antiquities might be at once forwarded to Philadelphia, and left there...
...good exhibition. A contest on the parallel bars followed, and was participated in by Messrs. Brett, '77, Livermore, L. S. S., Sigourney, '78, and Preston, '79. Much time was wasted through the lack of some order of movements, by the performance of which the relative merits of the contestants might have been more quickly decided. After much deliberation the prize was awarded to Mr. Brett. The standing high-jump was next in order, and was well contested by Messrs. Hall, '76, Latham, '77, and Martin, '77. Mr. Hall fell out first, and Messrs. Latham and Martin both cleared the rope...
...well in this profession, in which some of his family had been distinguished. But it may be doubted whether, even if he had not died so young, he would have had health vigorous enough to allow of his accomplishing this or any other wish that he might have had at heart. Those who knew him best also think that, under a reserve hard to penetrate, there was a sensibility that augured ill for happiness under any circumstances that could be predicted for him with probability. His unusual delicacy, his manliness, and uprightness have, it is believed, not been unappreciated...
...clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion I rather incline) vice versa. We had read, too, of the woful condition of college morals and college men, who commit the heinous sin of wearing ulsters and smoking cigarettes, and whose moral character, as might be expected from an exterior so intensely vulgar, is flashy in the extreme, being chiefly made up of "impure thoughts," on what subjects we are not informed...