Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...says: "She, (Harvard) has had advantages in point of numbers, and it is only by virtue of our greater enthusiasm and harder work that we have won." Let every Harvard man take this intensely to heart. If those words of the News mean anything, it is this: "Harvard might win if she would." Our very adversaries proclaim...
...extraordinary that the faculty should not yet have opened their eyes to the plain fact that they gain nothing and that the students lose nothing by cutting down the vacation to such very narrow limits. The attendance in the courses during the week before and the week after vacation might seem to be a sufficient proof of how little regard is had by the men for the actual dates of the Christmas recess. But it seems that the faculty gets a grim satisfaction by worrying the consciences of those men who spend what we deem a perfectly legitimate holiday...
...collegiate and university, or gymnastic and scientific. While the early part of the entire course was given up to a variety of required studies for the purpose of general culture, the latter part of the curriculum opened the way to specialization by offering elective courses in which the student might work out his natural bent. In point of age the average American student in a first-class college is further advanced at the end of his sophomore year than the average German student when he enters the University from the gymnasium. The actual facts in the American college situations were...
...seems to me that these objects might be attained as well in some other way, without the danger of a classmate's being injured for life. At any rate, abolish...
...long editorial on the advantages and disadvantages of the purchase of the M. I. T. by Harvard. It says, "On carefully going over all the ground it seems to us that the only advantage of any real practical value would be the increased amount of money the institute might get to improve its facilities for teaching...