Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Under the first head, he described the working of the present system, laying especial stress on the power vested in State legislatures to determine the manner of election of presidential electors in their several states. Under the second head he claimed that under the present system the president might be and has been elected by the minority of voters. Another point made under this heading was that according to the present system many voters were virtually disfranchised in states returning a large majority in either direction. Under the third head, the argument that the present system would destroy state individuality...
...taken up unexpectedly. The captain of the crew had made arrangements with Mr. Eveleth, who has charge of the floats, that they should be left down until the middle of December, and a bond was to be deposited at the Bursar's office to cover all damages the floats might sustain from the ice, for when they have been left down heretofore they have sometimes been stripped by the ice and tide...
...have given those who did not see the game, it may be well to state that although the Harvard team was outplayed, it gave Princeton a terribly hard struggle; and that under conditions as favorable for Harvard as those Saturday were for Princeton, the score made on that day might easily have been reversed. The playing and captaining of Sears deserves high praise The end rush work of Cumnock was magnificent. Porter and Cranston also played strong games...
...secreted them for their own personal benefit. No argument, of course, is needed to show the selfishness and injustice of such practices, and yet, after the matter has been repeatedly brought to the notice of the students, the abuse continues. Were not the rules infringed so often the offence might be excused on the ground of thougtlessness, but after so much has been said upon the subject, there is no alternative but sharply to criticise the offenders. The scruples of a gentleman, if nothing else, ought to put a stop to the secreting of reserved books on the part...
Dear Sir-Yale has had sufficient time now to make good her representations of last year, and it is time for Harvard to take a decided stand. We regret that it has been from our side, though not our fault, that this discussion might not have been brought up and settled earlier. Now, however, considering the circumstances under which the game was played last year in New York instead of in New Haven where it was originally arranged, we will state once and for all that we will play Yale this year in Cambridge on Thanksgiving day, and then...