Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - While not wishing to seem a grumbler on principle, I think a word against the practice, too common in our English department, of tediously dwelling on the life of an author and rehearsing all the small talk about his actions, might be well-timed; especially, when this practice is allowed to become detrimental to the impartment of a critical knowledge of the said author's works. Short enough time is given in a half course to acquire even a superficial acquaintance with the best writings of our authors of this century; so let us not detract from...
...lower life thrust upon them. In these days to study is not only to study, but to grow unpleasantly wise in the ways of the world. The Harvard college yard was not laid out for the sportive Cambridge youth; the college itself was not founded that merchants and dealers might make fortunes; and above all, the college buildings were not erected that "peddlers, beggars, traders and book-agents" might have a convenient field in which to go harvesting; but, nevertheless, yard, college, and buildings are grossly misused in these several ways. At this time complaints against beggars, impostors and peddlers...
...think he is going to "get even" with the world at large and his instructors in particular - presumably for inappreciation of his own efforts in the past - by vigorous "sitting on" the work of some known or unknown classmate. Perhaps this large amount of ill nature, and what might be called literary dis-curtesy, has given rise to doubts in our instructors' minds as to the efficacy of the system...
...religious matters, evidently as unintentionally as ignorantly, the university of which he claimed to be an "alumnus." But the evil work had been accomplished. Word had gone forth from our very doors that, religiously speaking, fair Harvard, to put it mildly, was rotten to the core. No words that might be uttered could avail. Jealous colleges, uttered the Pharasaical "Ah, ha!" Papers of which the past existence and actions had been anything but religious, caught the infection and sneered at that of which they knew nothing, and having used their war-worn phrases, passed them on to the Bungtown Clarion...
...other. Also, the opponents of co-education argue most strongly on this very point, for they declare that affection will get the better of intellect every time. And yet in spite of all, in spite of the general belief that at least affection would not suffer, while it might even be injurious to intellect, here are the young ladies of Oberlin actually finding the subject debatable. This, we say, is seriously significant. If affection is in any danger at Oberlin, what dangers must she not be in at Harvard, or Yale, or Princeton...