Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make himself generally useful-just as the former janitor did. I desire to ask the men in college to co-operate with me in a proposed attempt to get a first-class man, by sending to me the names and address of any persons known to them who might fit into the place with all its requirements...
...Lewis' "Vacation Song" is a composition of merit and we do not think the Glee Club did as well as they might...
...instructors would make it a point to teach a few of the students the observances of proper decorum in recitations. Those friends who begin to pack up their books and "grab" for their hats some three or four minutes before the close of the hour might learn a little forbearance if the instructor should do likewise and make a rush for the door even before he had completed the last sentence of his lecture. However this expedient might prove futile...
...poetry, Mr. Carman's "Violets" is a very charming bit, which does credit to its author. The poem is not wearisome nor "long drawn out," as might be expected from the extreme simplicity of the subject. Some of the stanzas are pure poetry. Take as an example...
...first place, it is rather odd that service in the Senate clerkship should be to all intents and purposes a vacation, for it draws a salary, and professors of journalism ought not to take a salary for taking a vacation. In the next place, we should think Mr. Fitch might secure the needed rest from 'the treadmill of editorial work' in his professorial labors at Cornell. This would give him change of occupation, and change of occupation often means rest. In fact, we can imagine nothing more soothing and refreshing to an intellectual man than the delivery of a course...