Word: might
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course, the objections against the danger from the crowded enclosure might be met by reducing the number of people and enlarging the exits; or by moving to another tree with plenty of room about it as, for instance, one behind either Matthews or University. The character of the exercises might also be changed so that no one could find fault with them. The gathering, marching and cheering are certainly pleasing features and the scramble around the tree many think might be changed so that individuals would have more chance of success and could compete without donning football clothes and without...
...executive departments. The affirmative believe that the best remedy for the evils consequent upon such conditions is a responsible cabinet government. The speaker then defined the question and stated that the affirmative defended an intimate relation for purposes of harmony between executive and legislative departments in order that one might intelligently guide and the other criticize. He said the affirmative demanded merely three things-that cabinet members be selected from members of both Houses of Congress; that they be given power to initiate and conduct legislation; that they be made responsible for it to the people at large and House...
...McElroy '96, followed Sterling, and proceeded with the argument by pointing out the advantages of connection between legislative and executive departments over their separation. Because, he stated, (1) it fits our government to meet crises and great and sudden dangers; leaders might be changed to suit emergencies; (b) leaders could provide a voice in laws passed for the occasion; (c) Congress and the President would work in harmony, as both would be responsible for the result; (2) it would give us better and more men in high office, as (a) the premier would be chosen for his past record...
...seems to me that there might be held during the coming Christmas holidays an informal meeting of representatives from the more important universities to consider the whole question of intercollegiate golf, and we shall be happy to have such a meeting at the Ardsley Casino or I shall be glad to open my house in this city for the purpose if the responses to the invitation which I am now sending are favorable...
...Raynolds urges that, as it can rarely happen that any member of the team will have any thorough knowledge of the subject assigned he must go to some outside source and might as well go to the men who have it at first hand, as to books and magazine articles which they have written. But there is a great difference in the two sources. In getting the information from books the debater displays his own ability in choosing his arguments and arranging them in a logical and forcible way. In getting the information from men he displays rather the ability...