Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...such be oratory, - an art content with small beginnings, thriving on the hard lessons of blunders and mistakes, - the sooner in life these rudimentary lessons are given, the better for all concerned. Could Harvard act on this principle she might have a chance of escaping such criticism as the following on the Commencement speakers of a few years...
...student, has always seemed pleasant; of course the arrangement here, quite different from the English, would make it impossible for the College to do such a thing. But really, to prepare a plain breakfast not much work is necessary, nor to prepare a light supper. One entry might unite, rent a room, and have what little cooking was necessary done in it by some one who should come and do the work and furnish the meals to the students in their rooms. The cost of such a manner of boarding would not equal what many...
...compel any one to attend a place in which there is not room enough for more than two thirds of its occupants; in which - But it is useless to enumerate its faults; they are already well known. Would that it had as many, or even any, merits which might be told! It must be remembered that the proposed Commons is to be in a room much more elegant than any in which students now take their meals, and where, by proper management, all, without being crowded, could obtain good board at a reasonable price; for, strange as it may seem...
...other respects? We all know that gathering around the same table unites persons much more than meeting in any other way. As an example of this plan, we have the Commons of the English Universities. Their Commons are certainly successful, and, having the advantage of their experience, we might improve upon them; for instance, by the adoption of the "European" system of payment, which would enable each student to suit his living to his means. Though one may be moved at first to cry out with horror against this innovation, are there not, on the whole, more reasons for than...
...possible, in view of the ideas which then obtained, that we might have affected the antique, and formed our citizens in the mould of Sparta or of Rome, instead of making French citizens, imbued with the principles of modern civilization...