Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...went to the St. Goar Library, and, thinking a little light reading might enable me to get through the Sabbath without the help of the druggist, I requested (in writing) a certain youthful page to bring me Swinburne's youthful poems, or Bussy-Rabutin, or Severin's Premiere nuit de noces...
...honorary member, with the special duty of performing this difficult mathematical feat. We would also suggest that the Committee make arrangements for hiring that noble instrument, the marking-machine, which has recently occupied the attention of the undergraduate mind. When not required to grind minus quantities this instrument might prove tractable, even under the direction of some other than the master mind that gave it birth. Its docility, however, must first be ascertained, for, like the gentleman's irrepressible cork-leg, when once started, it might go on forever...
...iron sphere, weighing sixteen pounds," strikes a spectator in the head, we think it extremely likely that that individual, if able to collect his ideas, would look upon it as a 'throw'. After several spectators in the immediate neighborhood had been carried off prostrated by these 'tries,' the judges might with reason decide that the contestant had done enough for that afternoon, as the spectators seemed not hurt, but somewhat discouraged...
...several spectators in braided coats and "bell trousers" did not speak highly of the good taste and discrimination of some members in disposing of their complimentary tickets to such friends. If this evil arises from the custom introduced this year of selling tickets, it should be stopped, or it might perhaps be remedied by requiring all members to indorse with their own names the tickets they give to their acquaintances. Heretofore the distinctive feature in all college sports has been the absence of the professional and rowdy element; let us hope, then, that in the future whoever is responsible will...
...ambitious Freshman crews, and so render unnecessary the arrangement of special Freshman races. According to a letter of its secretary, dated January 24, and published in the Cornell Era, the N. A. A. O. would be glad to offer flags for a race which the Freshmen of Cornell might arrange to row with Columbia, Harvard, or any other college, as the first event in its regatta for the three challenge cups. I suggest, therefore, that as some of the Harvard Freshmen appear dissatisfied because their proposed match with Cornell was broken off, they agree to compete with those flags...