Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Varsity nine may obtain more practice than it is getting at present. The idea is a good one and should not be left to moulder. The Junior nine has shown itself a strong team. Could it not step forward and fill the gap which is so marked. Its captain might organize a consolidated nine if the '88 men cannot be persuaded to play. Such practice would be invaluable to the 'Varsity. If defeat should finally result, it may be laid to the fact that such a team was not organized. We hope that the suggestion of our correspondent will...
...Some one must take the inititative in the matter. In my opinion, the proper way would be to organize a committee composed of graduates, and representing the different colleges which might desire to enter the race, to send an invitation to the English university crews...
...specific remedy to this evil, I would suggest that a number of students be made a committee to escort the visiting nine back to their coach and show them the ordinary courtesy one from hosts to guests. The men who usher at the games might most conveniently be entrusted with the performance of this task...
...Margaret and Harold. Without sentimentality, one pities the pair, and looks on them leading their separate, sorrowful lives as creatures of an inevitable fate - too strong to be rolled in the mire, and only strengthened and chastened by their past. The story is not altogether sombre, however, though one might reasonably ask that a little more cheerfulness had been scattered here and there throughout a tale essentially sad. Alf Escott is the only really cheerful figure, and what one sees of him at first hand is very telling in its lightening effects; but the book is so largely a narrative...
...character is accomplished without the usual effect of wearying the reader. The idea of the whole sketch resembles in a way Hawthorne's "Christmas Banquet." Two stanzas on "A Dead Girl" are full of charm; the idea of death being "beguiled" by her smile is such a one as might have occurred to Heine. A rambling poorly-told story entitled, "Leaves Picked in a Cemetery" and some book notices make up the rest of the issue...