Word: might
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Athletic Committee also took up the question of the status of athletics in the fall. The meeting had been called in order that Dean Briggs might get an idea of the general opinion of the members. He leaves this morning to confer in New York with Dean Corwin of Yale and Dean McClenahan of Princeton...
...them he has made his sport. But we have been a little too inclined to assume the censorious attitude. We have forgotten that these professors volunteered entirely of their own accord to take, in addition to their regular duties of instruction, such work as the military department might give them. They have made possible courses which otherwise would have required a new force of instructors. They have spent many hours and no little effort, and imposed upon themselves tiresome and unpleasant tasks. They have devoted evenings to the drudgery of correcting section papers. In everything, from acting as majors...
...permanent residence. But in the case of all those, born outside of the United States, who have attained the age and qualifications entitling them to undertake work in our higher institutions of learning, and who have yet given no sign of intending to become American citizens, the colleges might well raise bars of exclusion...
...main difficulty with such a conscription is that it might start labor troubles in the country. It is a delicate proposition and would have to be handled in an extremely tactful way. One feasible method would be to draft these men for military service, give them uniforms, put them under martial law, divide them into regiments of engineers, and just as we have the Railway Engineers in France today we could have shipbuilding and munition regiments, farming regiments scattered in squads or platoons where they are most needed. Such an arrangement would satisfy the pride of the laboring classes...
...than selective, and for that reason he fails to convince. Mr. Sparks, though he is more successful, shows the disposition, frequent in the immature realist, to shock his reader by calling every spade a blasted shovel. In saying this I am aware that I am committing a sin which might be termed reviewer's overemphasis. For Mr. Sparks writes vividly and one does not forget what he says...