Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...like taking the trouble, it would be a very easy matter for two or three men to announce a run for a certain day, and place a blue book in some convenient place for the signatures of those who wish to run, and if sufficient interest is shown it might even be possible to form a hare and hound club to arrange runs and to further the interests of one of the most popular and beneficial sports in college. English schools have these clubs, and as hare and hound runs are increasing so in popularity, I see no reason...
Before beginning the translation itself, Mr. Lawton briefly reviewed the story of the Medea and gave a short synopsis of the principal scenes and characters in the play, so that those who were not at the first lecture might be made thoroughly familiar with the personality and surroundings of the drama. Mr. Lawton began his reading at the third Episode and finished the play. He did not attempt to give a dramatic delivery of the story, but to tell it in such a way that an intelligent comprehension of its true greatness might be gained by the audience. Mr. Lawton...
...cage, and, in all probability, the New Haven skating rink, which will be of immense advantage during the winter months. The freshmen, since their football defeat, have been very anxious to get revenge on Harvard, and the manner in which they are going to work looks as if they might...
...good mathematical course, almost nothing in natural history, good teaching in the modern languages, and excellent training in English. The courses in political economy, metaphysics, and morals were interesting, though they did not go far. Such as they were, these were almost the same for everybody; one man might take Spanish and another Italian, but every one had to study French, and every one had to study German. For the rest, it was a little unusual for picked men to get some special advanced class, in which they were not marked, and in which they took, and knew they took...
...exercise and every college exercise since the day he entered. When I expressed my amazement, he said quietly, "Why should not I have done this? I had nothing to do in Boston as you had, with your home there. Cambridge was my home. If I lived in Cambridge, I might as well do the things for which I came there." I could not have found many such instances as that, but the story is worth telling, as showing how much larger a part the college and its work played in a young man's life than it does now, when...