Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fourthly: Our management is accused of influencing the committee to decide against New York, thinking they might force Yale to come to Cambridge. This is as absurd as it is unfair and ungenerous. The foot-ball men could not influence the Athletic Committee. The votes of the overseers and of the faculty have time and again been against allowing Harvard to play in New York, and there was nothing else for the committee to decide. In fact they saved time by deciding at once...
...Peckster Professorship" by J. P. Quincy is what one might call a psychical novel. The author seems to have caught the popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although...
...complaint on the part of the different college papers, and this fall has been no exception to the rule. But the attendance of three or four hundred students at a foot-ball game played in a drenching rain must have been a matter of surprise to any stranger who might have been present at Saturday's game. In no better way can the college show its appreciation of the praiseworthy efforts of the eleven than by its action on Saturday; and the enthusiasm thus shown under the greatest drawbacks, as far as physical comfort is concerned, must have been extremely...
Under "Topics of the Day," is given an account of the experience of "Brown, the moderate grind," in his attempts to write a sophomore theme. Many a sophomore will find his sympathies aroused for the struggling novice and will secretly admit that his own name might well be substituted in place of that of Brown. The article is admirable for its faithful description of a common experience in student life...
...committee of the Governing Committee of the Board of Overseers met Wednesday evening at the Somerset Club. The Presidents of the fout classes had been invited to attend this meeting in order that the Overseers might ascertain more fully the feeling of the undergraduates in regard to the proposals made at the last meeting of the Board. The meeting was entirely unofficial and was held simply with the view of discovering how much truth there is in the articles which have recently been published, and also of discovering whether or not the tendency of the undergraduates in regard...