Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...convenience in which case further modification, or even the return to the old state of things, would be conceivable; but open election, it was thought, meant the assertion of a principle, from which it would be impossible to retrograde. The anonymous expression of regret for the ancient regime might, therefore, seem idle petulance, and call for no remark, even though its author feels it necessary to go back two thousand years to the system of oligarchy to find an instance of illiberality on which to affiliate his sentiments. Insulting allusions, however, to gentlemen who are fellow-students, combined with...
...that any particular individuals who have failed to identify themselves with their class are not the men to fill its offices. Despite the formation of cliques, four years of association between cultivated men is sufficient to allow them to form definite estimates enough of one another's capacities. This might not be the case if the ability required for the Class-Day officers were of a technical nature. But the truth is, that the talent required is of the very kind we are all fitted to appreciate by our college course...
These facts, we trust, the Corporation will give its attention to. The fire in Hollis, bad as it was, might have been much worse. Those who roomed in the building will suffer much inconvenience, but their pecuniary loss is small, thanks to those who were so energetic in rendering assistance. It has been suggested that a subscription should be made for the sufferers, but it seems to us that there is little need of such aid. What is needed is rooms for those who have lost their quarters. The best manner of supplying this need seems...
...hear that initiatory steps have been taken in Boston for the formation of an Alpine Club, whose central field of labor will be the White Mountains. Among the benefits to be derived from organized effort, it was suggested that much might be done in determining the altitudes and positions of various mountains, ascertaining facts relating to the animals and fauna of the high regions, in tracing glacial action, in arriving at some definite results in regard to the nomenclature of mountains where the same eminences were known by different names or one or more mountains by the same name...
...that because two "institutions of learning" are called universities they resemble each other in anything beyond their names. Certain groups of colleges can be made so that the colleges in each group will resemble each other and differ from the other groups. For instance, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard might form a group; Amherst, Dartmouth, Brown, and Wesleyan, another; and so on. This is not a fine classification, but it is safe to say that the more one of these groups keeps itself from the rest the less trouble there will be. We may have, some day, one standard university...