Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blockade of street cars began Monday evening; by Tuesday not a car was running. Along the main lines might be seen cars which, having got fastened in a drift had been abandoned by the drivers. These were used as resting places by weary and snowbound pedestrians. Several cars were snowed up in the tunnel of the Fourth Avenue Surface Railroad. The passengers got out, but provender had to be lowered for the horses. In some of the down-town stores, it was thought best to have the employees sleep on the premises, as no means of conveyance could be gotten...
...progress of the students in "learning and godliness." For three weeks in June each year all students of two or more years' standing were required to attend in the "Hall," from nine to eleven and from one to three on Mondays and Tuesdays for their annual examinations. Visitors might at this time test their proficiency in the various studies, and as it was customary for some of the overseers to visit the school whilst the students were thus doing "what were called sitting of solstices," these weeks were called the "weeks of visitation." Those who failed to pass the examinations...
...University is poverty striken as far as classical and contemporary art is concerned. Of artists now living or of those belonging to the last generation, there is not a trace. Classic art is represented only by a few wood cuts and copies of drainings. The deficiency in modern art might be supplied to some extent by art journals which often contain valuable pictures. But strange as it may seem, the library of Harvard does not possess an art journal. In fact, the only pictures Harvard owns on the illustrations of the art books, limited in number and often so crude...
...could be made very attractive if the management of the H. A. A. would enter into the matter in earnest; and ladies should be admitted as at other winter meetings. This special meeting could easily be arranged for the 31st of March, the Saturday before vacation begins, and it might be the means of helping the University Crew considerably. It might not be a bad plan to ask the Technology tug-of-war team to pull against our 'varsity team. This would give our team practice for the Mott Haven games, and would lend zest to the entertainment. Fencing...
...Greek art and literature. In this epic we find the determination of Zeus to relieve the earth of its surplus population by a destructive war given as the cause of the Trojan war. In furtherance of this plan, Thetis was given in marriage to Peelers, that their son Achilles might be the bulwark of the Greeks. This marriage was one of the episodes which particularly attracted the vase-painters, and was subjected to endless variations in artistic handling. The Judgment of Paris was also a favorite subject in every period, although the art-types were very different in the archaic...