Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...possible to do away with this delay? It seems as though there might be a rule which should compel the leaders of the hounds to wait only a specified time, or until a certain number has come up to the point of breaking...
...could put against him. Corbin, the gigantic centre rush, is the heaviest man in the team. He plays a strong, aggressive game, and is not afraid of trying to stop a steam engine. He has a trick of leaping high in the air and stopping many low punts which might otherwise go half way down the field. Woodruff and Gill, the right and left guards, are both crew men and are exceptionally strong and active. The two remaining positions in the line are filled by Carter and Cross. The ormer is a crew man, and the latter was a substitute...
...Yale Lit?" Now, it was either that distance lended the speaker enchantment, or else he had never perused the Harvard Monthly with scholarly care, for if he had done so he would never have compared it unfavorably with the literary paper at Yale. There are many men here who might have made the same remark. Before they jump at conclusions, it might be wise if they would read some of their own college papers...
...that, with two exceptions, they are all poetry, or else prose about poetry. Even granting that poetry is the "purest distillation of human thought," the reader of a magazine like the monthly is surprised, and perhaps a little disappointed, at finding it an anthology pure and simple. It might have been well to keep some of the verse for the adornment of the next number. Mr. Francis Ellingwood Abbot contributes the leading article on "The Future of Philosophy at Harvard." Anything that Mr. Abbot can have to say on this subject well deserves careful attention, though the ideas which...
...cares for Harvard, and the editors of the Monthly can well feel gratified at President Eliot's action in making their paper the medium of communicacation for the student of St. Andrews in Scotland. There is reason for regret that we have no "Students' Representative Council" that might send an appropriate reply to this letter of greeting...