Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...connection with former editions. As many as three hundred lines have been added to the quotations from Shakespeare alone. On the other hand, no maxims of even the best writers have been added which seemed to the author to be unfamiliar to the general class of readers, although they might be of undoubted excellence. The index also, without which such a book would be like a library without a catalogue, has been enlarged and revised. Like the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as soon as a new edition of this book is published, the old edition must be replaced, if one wishes...
...neglect of this matter, there is a deplorable ignorance of the effects, on the mind, of different foods. To obviate this difficulty a committee should be at once appointed to inquire into this subject. The President, Dean, and the leading Professor in each of the above-mentioned departments might from the committee, with a corps of proctors as assistants...
...committee should at once enter upon its wide field of inquiry, which should include, besides the effects of different foods, the results of different methods of cooking. The Freshmen classes would afford excellent materials for experiments; the researches might be conducted in one of the unused rooms at Gore Hall, while the cellars of Harvard offer unusual facilities for the construction of large and convenient catacombs. At the end of five years results ought to have been obtained definite enough to warrant the inauguration of the plan...
...audiences have been apparently received with pleasure by the readers. Before beginning his first reading, Professor Child stated the object of the course in a few words. He said that arrangements had been made to have the great masterpieces read of almost all the languages commonly studied. The course might possibly be extended, if the interest taken in it warranted its extension, and the works of Dante read, together with those perhaps of Goethe and Schiller, and other great authors not previously announced. The course would be curtailed only in case the interest of the audience seemed to languish...
...statement of the article in question, but it strikes me that in this case, as in the other, injustice is done to a popular favorite. As a news-teller the Herald is unequalled in Boston, and certain editorials occur to me that would do credit to any paper. I might refer to one entitled "An Oriental Lesson," in a Sunday Herald of recent date. Its stand on the currency question is certainly of the soundest, and in general its editorial department will compare favorably with any Boston paper. But I need enter into no elaborate defence of the Herald...