Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...indications point to a close an exciting game. If Harvard is defeated - a contingency by no means improbable - the students can have the satisfaction of feeling that their own listlessness was the cause of the disaster, argument and attempts at persuasion have proved ineffectual. A series of victories might arouse the enthusiasm which would then be useless; but the present situation which calls for that enthusiasm is unable to obtain...
...estimates. The private company cannot be blamed for expenses that arise which were not expected, nor foreseen, any more than the private individual. But were any road to be rebuilt, experience bought at an excess cost of $30,000 per mile would show how construction and even maintenance expenses might be reduced so as to come within the limit of $30,000 allowed as normal average cost of construction per mile...
...seem sufficient to them; but if they should consider that old proverb, "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well," and should ponder over the fact that professionals not only play better ball, but play ball in a more gentlemanly way than most amateur clubs, they might at least be willing to bring forward the subject once more, and give an opportunity to the students who feel strongly in regard to the matter to present their view of the case that a fair discussion of the merits of the question...
...study. The rooms will be thrown open in May, with an appropriate recognition of the event. This new movement on the part of the club has been largely suggested by the number of young men coming into the club, who, it was thought, would appreciate club-rooms where they might gather for social purposes. For graduates of Harvard living out of town it will also prove a great convenience, furnishing a place for them to drop in during their vitits to the city. Such non resident members are now on roll from the East and West as far as Dakota...
...with shame to think that one of our number can be guilty of an act so small, so utterly beneath contempt, and, worse than all, so morally wrong. The writer of the signature may have thought that he was perpetrating a huge joke in thus attempting to deceive whoever might look over the register; but a short residence among us would soon teach him that such an act is not funny; it is fresh...