Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fashioned people might call this a waste of time; and if your object in life were to become an old-fashioned person, I suppose that it would be so. But the better a man of the world knows life in the world, the better off he is, and the more he studies character that does not know that it is being studied, the better be knows life...
...Might feel inclined her wings...
...Club has now been in existence four years, and has at last found for itself a sphere of usefulness. The notice given in another column explains in detail the changes made in the plan of the club. It has always been our opinion that this club might become an instrument of good if it could find a definite method of advancing the interests of art. It labored under many disadvantages. Its object was to increase the knowledge of undergraduates in matters of art, but there was no one competent and willing to undertake the instruction of the members...
...very different from the one in use now. A thousand strokes a day at the hydraulic machines used by our crew necessarily brings out the pluck and endurance of the candidates for the boat. Pulling at an iron weight attached to a strap was a different thing, and might well have the effect our correspondent fears. An extract from an English paper on the construction of racing-boats, which accompanied the letter, but which was too long for insertion in our columns, we have banded to the captain of the University crew. If all our graduates took as active...
...candidates. Remembering the refusal of the non-society to indorse the Pi Eta candidates, I doubt the convincing effect of this evidence, especially when one is informed that not only did the Pi Eta indorse the non-society candidates, but also the Signet candidates. From which latter circumstance it might, with equal propriety, be inferred that there was a coalition between the Pi Eta and the Signet...