Word: might
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...instruction must inevitably become a part of it. It may be Congress will rehabilitate the National Guard, in which case the University could support an artillery batallion to which men, ambitious to receive military training may belong, and after a team of service, and a further term of study, might receive commissions in the reserve...
...Territorial Clubs and Preparatory School Clubs in the University are falling into disuse. They might well serve as agents between present and future undergraduates in pointing out to the latter some of the advantages of going to Harvard. There is at present a natural re-action due to the war which makes us treat most things as inconsequential. The sooner we can take an active, unselfish interest in ordinary worth while matters, the better. A few words to a friend, uncertain about choosing college might be of real help to him and the University...
...football team or baseball team should not be awarded their letters? Is his criterion of merit not sincere effort, but accidental result? Would he give recognition only to those who are favored by chance, and stamp out of existence those who are less fortunate? His meaningless allusion to Prussianism might easily be made a boomerang...
...disparagement of any college activity. The University has perhaps been unsuccessful in other fields besides debating, but I venture to say that the editorial writer who found amusement in practising his original brand of sarcasm on debating, would not dare to do the same in regard to athletics. It might be good training for him to come out and try for the debating team next year. He would at least learn the wisdom of thinking before writing. He might come out of the debating trials a sadder but wiser man. We make no promises. J. J. TUTUN...
...believe in the usual accuracy of the first chapters of Genesis; if it had asserted that Mr. Phillip Oppenheim could not have written all the novels associated with his name; if it had urged that Ralph Waldo Trine is more spiritually nourishing than Ralph Waldo Emerson; such irreverence might reasonably have been attributed to the youthful extravagance of an epoch of change. But the Lampoon has gone further and has ventured to lay hands upon the essential foundations of the social order. It is difficult to see how Boston can retain its position as the modern Athens if youths...