Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...think that you might let a fellow alone...
...here is quite a field for any one aspiring to athletic honors, and it seems as if it would be a good thing to form an Athletic Club here, which might, if desirable, have matches with Yale, or even an intercollegiate contest, if such a thing were practicable...
...indebted to the Rev. Mr. Grafton, of the Church of the Advent, Boston, for this pamphlet. Although sermons do not form as large a part of college reading as might be desired, still the character of the two mentioned above may gain for them something of the attention which is usually bestowed upon literature of a lighter sort. The first is an able refutation of that unscientific theory - as it seems to many - advocated by Tyndall, which seeks to estimate the value of prayer by a test applicable only to human science, and which implies something very like omniscience...
...make you, who always wear laced shoes, believe that the Combined Bootjack and Towel-rack is an indispensable article, lingers as long in the room as the man who sells Bibles. Let no one infer that I think that students should not give in charity. Without doubt they might make the best possible use of some of their spare pocket-money by relieving real distress. But these people who haunt our rooms not only are a nuisance, but also prevent all true charity by offering such worthless objects...
...much more attractive and accessible form than heretofore. A piano has also been moved in, and a special meeting held to test the acoustic capabilities of the room, at which they were found to be of the highest order. Never before have we realized how effective choruses might...