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Word: might (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...group of two glees-"Courtship," by A. W. Thayer, and "The Happier Land," by Hatton. "Courtship" was sung with exquisite taste, and showed the long and patient work which doubtless had been given to it. The audience, however, did not seem to appreciate it as fully as they might have done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Glee Club Concert. | 12/21/1888 | See Source »

...Hasty Pudding theatricals were postponed to 8.30 o'clock last evening, so that the members of the club might have time to attend the College Conference meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/19/1888 | See Source »

...smoker," Thursday evening, important business was transacted. The constitution was amended in order to allow sophomores to be admitted as associate members. A motion to make the dues one dollar a year after the first year of membership was laid on the table till next meeting that all members might have an opportunity to consider it. The following motion was unanimously carried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bicycle Club Challenges Yale. | 12/15/1888 | See Source »

...sign that the mania for founding new colleges is dying, while at the same time the people recognize that it is better to patronize institutions already in existence. Our surplus of colleges has threatened to become a nuisance. Were our efforts confined to improving our most powerful universities, we might well hope to rival the German universities. Even New England has found it profitable to diminish her small number of educational institutions. In the last decade the number of her colleges has decreased by three; New York has lost two. In the Southern States, twenty-three colleges have died...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Statistics. | 12/15/1888 | See Source »

...incorrect idea of the rule, and thought that candidates for the nine would be allowed to play football if they had permission from the captain. He thinks it unfair for the senate to take this action without having made any complaint earlier in the season, when the matter might have been ad justed. Belcher will probably not return to Amherst next term, but will join Williams or some other college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Senate Aroused. | 12/11/1888 | See Source »

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