Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...republican party he said, favors the extension of the civil service reform in so far as to give the sole power of removal from office to an investigation committee. Had President Harrison vetoed any of these measures in the platform when brought before the senate then he might be said to have broken his pledge, but this is not the case. Mr. F. B. Williams, L. S., closed the debate for the affirmative. He said that in seven months President Harrison had turned out more men than Cleveland during the whole administration. He confined himself to civil service...
...manifestly unfair. A coach holds about twelve men on an average, but the space taken up by one would accommodate six rows of eight men each. or 48 men. Supposing that twenty coaches-a small number were present, two hundred and forty men would occupy the space which might have held nine hundred and sixty men. Seven hundred and twenty men, therefore, would be disappointed in their seats-a sacrifice which the men who are going in coaches ought not to expect. In behalf, then, of these seven hundred and twenty men I protest against the graduate's request...
...plain fact that scores of students are living about Cambridge in extremely inconvenient quarters, and in an unsettled condition anything but conducive to satisfactory work or to a happy frame of mind. If we could only get information from some source about the real state of the case we might make definite arrangements for the future. The contractor, the architect, the bursar, the president-some one might have an opinion which might be communicated and which it is unjust to withhold...
...provided the latter will come to a reasonable agreement in the matter. Mr. Bourinot lastly enumerated many things which would advance the interests of both countries and make their relations more friendly; the settlement of the question of the fisheries; a complete extradition treaty by which all escaped criminals might be returned to the United States; the opening of the canals and coast trade which would make intercourse between the two countries complete...
GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE.All students interested in Natural History and in the work which might properly be done in the university by the Harvard Natural History society are (whether they are members of the society or not) cordially invited to meet at Manter 2 this evening at 7.30 o'clock...