Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the early part of its existence, the society had its secret obligations, sign, word and grip, by which its members were enabled to recognize each other in any company. Thus it might be classed with the order of Freemasons. At present there is no secrecy about its proceedings, at least in Harvard. It is customary for the first twenty-five of the graduating class to compose it, but the number is a little less in the smaller colleges...
...might we, ridiculing all things like the great cynic, despising all things that are of this world like the sublime Futze, live delicious lives amid imperishable laughter at those follies and absurdities of Puck, Life, Punch, the Faculty and the Lampoon that alone make life worth enduring...
Then, too, there might be races on the ice, and other regularly organized sports conducted under the auspices of the H. A. A., - scrub table matches of hockey, exhibition skating, hurdle-matches and the like...
...freshman and sophomore nines went about seeking whom they might devour and devouring them handily, all during the autumn...
...first of these arguments is plainly weak. It is easy to see that an instructor might find several examination books (say, for example, four) the difference in worth between any two of which might not exceed one per cent., yet of which the best clearly belonged in class a, the worst in class b. He must then decide into which class to put the two intermediate books. Whether he puts both in a, both in b, or one in each of these classes, he has to make a distinction quite as fine as any under the old system. The result...