Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...condensation of all that is important in the first three books of Mill. The value of such a book to aid in preparation for an examination is incalculable. The Natural History 4 outline is so full of information and references that one who has not attended the course, might pass the examination after a careful study of this book. The Syllabus in History 2 is the former syllabus revised and enlarged by the addition of several new topics. All these pamphlets are a credit to their compilers...
...Divine Comedy which has most perfectly expressed their thought and their emotions; the prelude to this, Dante's Vita Nuova; the Life of St. Louis, by Joinville, the Romance of the Cid, and the Arthurian Romances. In later times the number of names really great is considerable. One might give Chaucer, the freshest and most springlike of all poets; Spenser (though with a certain hesitation). and Milton,- a little, for his real greatness was style rather than matter. Among the moderns, man a should select to begin with who ever most appeals to him, provided he choose a great author...
...reach of the students, while the other may be taken out as heretofore. We trust that this very reasonable suggestion may not fall on barren ground. No hindrances should be cast in the path of a student of Harvard college which the expenditure of a few dollars might dispense with...
...committee on rooms reported that it might be possible to secure rooms for the club over Alnutt's if some other club could be induced to share the expense. The following challenge was voted...
...marked change has taken place this year in what might be called the societies for instruction,-the Historical Society, Conference Francaise, Deutscher Verein, etc. Last year it was the instructors and professors who exercised control; this year everything is given up to the student members. Such a change is only another result of our elective system. It is the adding of another responsibility to those the undergraduates now sustain. Harvard University assumes that a student is a responsible being and acts accordingly. The year is not far enough advanced to test thoroughly this new experiment; but the trial gives promise...