Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Book Reviews there is a pains-taking review of "The Feud of Oakfield Creek" by Dr. Royce. The philosopher, historian, and novelist is now informed that he might be an eminent playwright. The review is careful and well weighed, but hardly satisfactory. An editorial and other book notices complete the number...
...carefully grouped - as usual - on the last days of the college year; obviously to keep men in Cambridge to the utmost end of the term - why, oh, why should this be? The editorial mind confesses to entertaining in its simplicity the opinion that undergraduates who finish their examinations earliest might better go home to loaf than make life doubly hideous with the revelry of their rejoicing for the unlucky wretch whose examinations are packed into the last few days...
...number of hours to be found. The only way to find out is to hunt up the instructor, who, by some natural law that we do not understand, is usually out in such circumstances, especially at the beginning and end of the year, when one wants information most. One might naturally suppose, for instance, that Chemistry 3 occupied three hours a week instead of between eight and twelve, of which no mention is made...
Instances might be multiplied but each of us can probably remember some hours spent in attempts to get the information that might be, and ought to be, put in the elective pamphlet...
...greater. New Hampshire, for example, has a library to every 2,700 persons. The neighboring states of Massachusetts and Connecticut furnish a library to every 3,134 and 3,479 persons respectively. California, Colorado, Wyoming and Michigan stand well up on the list. The Southern States, as might be expected, make the worst showing, Arkansas bringing up the rear with one library to every 50,158 of population...