Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Avoid being an amateur. The essential thing is the habit of thinking and working. There is no pleasure in vacation unless work comes before and after it. Begin to acquire the habit of work, and the effort to keep it lessens. Let the man of leisure remember the debt he owes to the public for its protection of himself and his property. He can pay this debt by working in public undertakings and charities where no pay can be given. But there is room nowhere for the dabbler...
...that some plans be made for a celebration of our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and suggests the method of the Boston Latin School last year as a good example. I think this idea of a reunion with addresses and eulogies is an excellent one and one that we might still have in conjunction with something else. But would not something of a jovial nature, in which the whole body of students take part, be more fitting to the happy occasion. I have in mind a singular celebration, which I cannot quote accurately because I have not the paper near...
...both teams have done, a closely sharp contest will be the probable result. But we again return to the old cry of delay, both at the beginning and in calling events. The custom pursued in the Technology meetings of calling each event at a stipulated time despite possible absences, might not result in a satisfactory solution of the problem, but there is little doubt that sharper, more interesting work would be elicited by this plan. It is also to be hoped that tumultuous expressions of approval or disapproval will be restrained to the utmost limit. We feel enough respect...
Here are eight years spent in instructing a branch which we are ready to throw aside after two or three years. Might not our University try to remedy this evil by applying some severe test in this branch of study at the admission examinations...
...very moderate membership fee, - only a dollar for the rest of the year. Many will give more than this sum in payment for half the subscription of a college paper, and expend many times this amount for other reading matter, while by joining the reading-room they might have not only the best illustrated and comic papers of England and America, but also the leading journals of these two countries, and the representative dailies of Boston, New York and Springfield, not to mention sporting papers and papers from other colleges. It was hoped that the students would show such...