Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seen, would not be very great-at a reasonable price. A very small subscription from the men in college would amply cover all expense incurred throughout the entire winter. The advantages of the plan are too obvious to need discussion, and the universal desire expressed each year that we might have a skating pond nearer college than Fresh Pond, is a sufficient warrant for the undertaking of the plan. The proper organization to move in the matter is without doubt the athletic association. The officers of this society have always been prompt to respond to the expressed wishes...
This matter has been a subject of complaint-every year since I have been in college, and it does seem to me that in a matter so trifling, men might exercise a little care and make all the relations in the reading-room more agreeable than they...
...version of the New Testament and translate into Greek, but this was only customary when the president conducted the service. This exercise was very distasteful to the students and in about 1700 they threatened rebellion, if the custom was not discontinued. On Sunday evening any one of the students might be called upon to repeat the sermon preached that day in the parish church...
...conservative element who declare that the moral effect of football is harmful have not, after all, solid ground for their assertions. The further fact that none of the alumni present arose to object to the language used by Captain Beecher as being unseemly and as evincing a deplorable spirit, might well lend further weitht to the arguments against the game. By their silence all the members of Yale present at that dinner signalled their assent to these bullying and indecorous words...
...gain points from the race. As to the first of these reasons it can only be said that a crew in proper training and condition should be able to row races on consecutive days if necessary, let alone an interval of several days. As to the second, what points might be gained by Yale would be of little benefit to her, as no crew can entirely change its tactics in the space of a few days. Betting might be influenced by the "points," yes, if that is the idea. It makes little difference to Columbia whether they row before...