Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Columbia, and that they had done it at the advice of the Executive Committee. That they did n't stand a sure chance of winning ought not to be any cause for not challenging, but there are other reasons. Cornell, taking into account the present relations between the colleges, might consider it a sort of apology for what she calls not fair play, but we have no apology to make, since the Executive Committee have done that already. Then it has been rumored that ex-Captain Bancroft said that if he had to row last year's Cornell crew...
...recitation-time? The pushing and crowding and frequent collisions which occur every hour are anything but pleasant. To be sure, those who are going in never hurry; but the numbers of those who are eager to get out keep many waiting and cause great confusion. All this inconvenience might be remedied by leaving both doors open for the five minutes between recitations...
...must meet the obvious objection that wealthy young men might be induced to break away from the temptations to idleness which beset them, and succeed in winning money which they do not need. Not to mention the probable supposition that in such cases the emolument would in some way be restored to the college, it is confidently replied that, any stimulus to self-control and industry which may chance to reach the inheritors of wealth it is for the interest of the community to bestow. Moreover, to those who are troubled by difficulties of this description, it may be pointed...
...five days which precede and the five which follow the day of the race (June 27), I earnestly seconded the recommendation. The Yale undergraduates, indeed, show no disposition to resort to such an extreme measure, both because they are not convinced of the seriousness of the possible consequences which might result from the presence of other crews at New London, and because they dislike to act in a way that would expose their motives to misconstruction; but there is no manner of doubt that they all ardently desire to have the annual race kept entirely free from side-shows, either...
...three months McClure managed to hold on to himself; what was left of him stuck by him. The Annuals were half over; and, perhaps, as a Sophomore, he might have seen the error of his ways, and checked his infernal propensity. One unlucky afternoon he was hard at work in the laboratory, where suddenly, alas! an explosion, a sound of breaking glass - the Freshman class, O where was it? Ask of the fulminating silver that far around with fragments strews the new Gymnasium. Examinations were postponed...