Word: might
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discussing the proposed lengthening of the Class Day exercises to cover two or three days, it has not been suggested that the lengthening of the time and the increase in the number of events in the exercises might be accompanied by an increase in expense to the members of the Senior class. The expense to that portion of the class, who wish to entertain friends on Class Day, is now far from light. Any change which might result in an additional expense will be strongly opposed...
...usually possible to foretell with something near accuracy whether a lecture will be meagrely attended, well-attended, or crowded. From the success of Professor Moore's exhibitions last year, one certainly might have supposed that a like series this winter would not fail to draw large audiences. If it is likely that a lecture will be meagrely attended of course no seats need be reserved. If it is thought that a lecture will be either well attended or crowded such a proportion of good seats as the lecturer thinks adequate, should be reserved for students. If it is wholly impossible...
...surer means of support than any other that has yet been suggested. It was suggested that an assessment of a dollar a year upon every student in the University resident in Cambridge, and further a dollar a day for every day's residence in the infirmary beyond five days, might raise a sufficient income. Would not this be very uncertain as a means of support, however? One year it might provide sufficient funds another it might not, and the Corporation, never being able to count upon a sufficient sum, would be put to the trouble and expense of providing...
...again the majority would be obviously paying the expenses of the minority, and in any case under such a system the infirmar would always be under the disadvantage of having its debts in the present and its means of payment in the future. The five dollars a year plan might be qualified in-so-far as to exempt all men from payment who signified their fixed intention to go home in case of illness, but there would certainly be no object in allowing those who were able, voluntarily to bear the expense of being cared for in their own rooms...
There are really comparatively few men, except those who live so near the College that in case of sickness they would go home, who would not have occasion during the year of using an infirmary. Those who would signify their intention of going home if taken sick might, as the communication suggests, be exempted from the fee. With this restriction it could hardly be said that "the many were paying for the few." There are some, to be sure, who would not use the infirmary, but these few should not hinder any movement which is so thoroughly desireable...