Word: might
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...proposed scheme for caps and gowns of the class colors. With proper energy on the part of those in charge, a blue book canvass could easily be taken of those willing to parade and those who wish to buy caps and gowns. If thought advisable, the Seniors might wear their Class Day caps and gowns, with perhaps a bit of orange ribbon. Something definite would then be known about the number which would take part...
Mayor Bancroft spoke at some length in encouraging the movement. He gave as some of his reasons the fact that examinations were omitted on June merely in order that the students might join the parade, and also the fact all members of the University owed it to themselves and to the graduates to show sufficient enthusiasm to aid the Harvard men who are at the head of the affair. He concluded by saying that students might arrange to wear special costumes or not, as they pleased...
...believed that as soon as the students realized the importance of the occasion, they would not for a minute hesitate to participate on June 3. He added that it would be impossible to study on that morning with twenty-five bands passing by the Yard, and that the undergraduates might as well walk in the procession as watch it from their windows...
...Hollander ran at his heels for a lap and a half. Here Hollister increased his speed and gradually drawing ahead, won as he pleased by 40 yards. His time of 1m. 56 4-5s. breaks the Harvard record of 1m. 56 7-8s., held by Goodwin, and might easily have been faster if Hollister had been pushed...
...work since last autumn has proved that Harvard men everywhere recognize the great benefits which might spring from the proposed Union, and that a large proportion of the students now in Cambridge are ready to use such an institution. We have the approval of the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, and the Faculty. The Professional School students, for whom no social affiliations exist, welcome the project; the undergraduates, who feel the effects of isolation, on the one hand, and cliqueishness on the other, desire its fulfillment; the athletic men look to it as a means towards supplying the unity...