Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hand, we heard many mutterings that the best men were not all represented on the team, and that a more judicious choosing would have given Harvard a better place in the base-ball contest. We are inclined to doubt the value of these mutterings, for the reason that harmony might have been destroyed if the personnel of the nine had been different. But who, may we ask, has a right to maintain private grievances when his duty lies to his college alone? If we are to regain our prestige the strong undercurrent of Harvard life, which exerts, perhaps, no positive...
...graduate article, a dramatic, powerfully written and most instructive dialogue by Mr. Donaldson, is genuinely original, and certainly a perfect description of how men talk, if not, thank heaven, of the way women act. Follow a poem by Mr. De Wolf, Jr. one line of which might be altered for the better: it would read more effectively...
Through the spring the boat was tried a number of times but owing partly to delays caused by the leaking of certain parts difficult to repair, and partly to the feeling that whatever merit the inventions might have it would hardly be possible to obtain any practical advantage of them that year, the matter was allowed to drop, and no definite conclusion was reached...
...life are to be met, not by an equally sudden impulse of the will for safety, but only by the discipline and training to perfect obedience of that will. The opportunity for such discipline, the preacher continued, had been enjoyed by those young lives before him. They might not carry away much detailed knowledge; every one after an examination has experienced the shedding from his brain, as from a roof, of the floods of facts that have been poured upon it. But they could and should carry away what was of much more value. The patient labor of college years...
...their second innings the Freshmen made a much larger score, owing to the brilliant batting of Captain Brown, whose 55 was obtained by hard, clean hitting; Quinby and Captain Ellis distinguished themselves in the bowling line. Had time allowed, the Freshmen might have given the 'Varsity a very close fight for victory. Below is the score...