Word: might
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Board of Overseers were to make an announcement some weeks before the conference of the specific matters for discussion, a more satisfactory result might be reached. A meeting of the Council could be called, the question brought up and talked over, so that a more intelligent and unified opinion could be presented by the students than when they arrive to consider a question with the Overseers which they had not previously considered among themselves...
...Student." We hope that the conference may show an advantage to be derived from closer relationship between the college authorities and the undergraduates; and if such a benefit is revealed now is the opportune time to establish some permanent means of co-operation in the future. A provision might be made to insure the continuation of similar conferences. A committee from the Student Council might meet annually with the Board of Overseers to represent the undergraduate opinion, when that opinion could be of value; or the scheme might be carried even further so that a representative group of undergraduates might...
...LaFarge writes "To Frederic Schenck". The value of the poem is in the feeling it expresses toward its subject; a value marred only by the frequent lapses in word or phrase from the exalted to the mediocre. Possibly a simpler form might have left the evident sincerity of the work freer to be felt, but as it stands we may be grateful for the poem. The same difficulty with external form bothers the author of "Ghosts", and the reader is jolted out of whatever enjoyment he might derive from this treatment of an old theme. "The Gallows Thing...
Although three challenges for the renewal of the annual baseball game have been sent to the Yale chapter, no reply has yet been received from the Eli keymen. It was hoped that the contest might be staged in Cambridge early this June, but unless the New Haven honor students accept within a short time, the event will have to be cancelled...
...Victory Liberty Loan campaign is two thirds over but subscriptions have been reported for little more than one third of the Loan. Our sons gave of their health, of their strength, and of their lives, that freedom might not perish. There are one and a half million American boys in France and Germany. Now that the war is ended it would be as reasonable for them to dishonor the nation by deserting the flag as for the nation to dishonor itself by deserting them. Is it a large thing that we are now asked to lend our money...