Word: might
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no doubt that the Amherst authorities are on the right track, College professors the country over have been far too much concerned about giving instruction and have paid too little heed to the problem of testing the student's general calibre. It is quite possible that we might obtain more education by giving less instruction, thus throwing the undergraduate to a greater extent upon his own resources. --Boston Herald...
...paper might have been called either The Liberal or The Conservative without offense to the character which its editors wish to impress upon it. Between true liberalism and true conservatism there exists not only no incompatibility, but on the contrary a vital bond of connection. There is a loose-joined liberalism which spurns the dear-bought fruits of the past, as there is an ossified conservatism which is incapable of seeing the inspiring possibilities of the future. But the true liberal views the future in the light of a genuine appreciation of the past, and the true conservative prizes...
...branch of sport or engaging therein in any capacity--shall represent his University in any athletic team or crew, except that any University Committee on Eligibility may, subject to the approval of the Committee of the Three Chairmen, permit such participation in intercollegiate athletics by men who might technically be debarred under the letter of the rule, but, who, in the judgment of the University Committee on Eligibility have not commercialized their athletic ability nor offended against the spirit of the foregoing provision...
...early man first discovered that he was physically stronger than his mate. The passing by the Sixty-Sixth Congress of the proposed Nineteenth Amendment marks the final step in the breaking down of this age-old prejudice, based as it is upon the bestial and pre-Adamite assumption that might makes right. We therefore hail the approaching advent of equal suffrage for women, confident that it is an indispensably necessary step in the growth of American freedom...
...Marine Corps promises with every good intention that all college students who enlist will be discharged immediately upon their return to this country in the fall, the process of discharge is necessarily slow, and, taken in addition to the recognized possibility of a return several weeks after college begins, might well play have with a successful fall term. Besides, small opportunity would be given for travel or the observation of general conditions overseas, except from the very limited viewpoint of the single village in which the enlisted student would probably be stationed for guard-duty. In addition to this, such...