Word: might
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...capacity to succeed, if she only takes the trouble, has been afforded. At the opening of the term we mentioned the well-worn saying, "Oh! they don't know how to play foot-ball at Harvard!" and joined our entreaties to those of the college that this trite remark might become as pathetic in its application as that satire, "Yale men say." Our hopes have been fulfilled, and Harvard has taken its place among the first of the contestants in the foot-ball arena...
...comes the first decisive test of the work done by our eleven this fall. In spite of the fact that injuries had rendered many of the most promising candidates for the team unfit for playing, Captain Holden had gotten together an eleven of which the University might be proud. But now at the last moment we are crippled sorely by the loss of Sears and Cumnock, whose services can ill be spared...
...communication in yesterday's issue in regard to the formation of a sophomore literary society deserves consideration, but we are not prepared to say that it deserves anything more. The existence of an organization in the sophomore year which would be of a purely literary character might prove a great blessing in lessening the power of some of the evils which beset second-year students; but whether any such society could be put upon a foundation which would secure to it inviolably devotion to the principles which gave it birth, is a matter of extreme doubt. There...
...matter is to be taken in hand, the present sophomore class is the one to do it, and not the upper classmen. The experiment might result most disastrously, but an attempt on the other hand might effect changes both unexpected and beneficial...
...thorough efficiency of the instructor; if not, Mr. "English 12" has no right to complain. The instructors at Harvard take the students to be more than mere school-boys, who require to be humored and lightly dealt with, lest they "go home and tell their Pa!" Perhaps it might suit our young Ajax were the instructor to say to him, "Oh, please excuse me, Mr. So-and-So, for mentioning it, I really hope you won't mind, but your work is not quite up to Dickens or Thackeray or Macaulay. It's really of no consequence, though...