Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this nation. We've had enough servility. No emancipation proclamation was ever more urgently needed than that which shall release the countless slaves of public opinion, and put a stop to such theatrical performances as that of Mr. Blaine in offering his pulse to be felt, that the country might know he was not nervous! In college the demand is equally imperative. Men's manners here are an imitation; given any unusual set of circumstances, not covered by conventional rules, and dozens of men who call themselves polite behave like barbarians. Their religious belief is a mere acceptance of family...
...might state, for the benefit of the unsophisticated, that during the exercises about the Tree the Yard will be probably unoccupied except by a few policemen, a small crowd of Cambridge "democrats," and a disconsolate majority of the Freshman class...
...taken all the other courses in the English department, and was anxious to take this one, but felt it imprudent to risk his degree on one examination in a course so traditionally hard, and he has therefore been obliged to give it up. His case is not exceptional; others might be mentioned, but one is enough to illustrate the evil working of the system, and to show that it is altogether hostile to true scholarship...
...that proctors had not perambulated the room during the examination, and that half a dozen students had taken advantage of their absence to make use of illicit help, and had thereby added ten per cent to their average by wrongful means, would this circumstance have outweighed the advantage which might have accrued to the feelings of confidence between instructor and students, resulting from the absence of proctors...
Students were obliged to exercise themselves in reading the Scriptures twice a day, so as to be ready to give an account of their proficiency whenever their tutors might require it; and all superiors were to be honored like natural parents, by keeping silence and uncovering the head in their presence...