Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government 1, and Fine Arts 1c and 1d, never have been laden with an excess of the books demanded for collateral reading for each test. Since the directors of these courses consider the schoolboy system of weekly or fortnightly tests to be a necessary part of them, they might lessen the burden by more efficient administration of the library. It is inconvenient enough to be obliged to wait for books during the hours that the library is open, without being hampered by the further stringent regulations in force at Fogg. There one finds the use of books outside the Reading...
...conducted by the Yale Student Council in 1926. It is the findings of this survey which supply the data for Mr. Crawford's treatment of the subject. The questionnaire employed by the Student Survey is printed in the back of the book, and seems to have emitted nothing which might help an intimate understanding of each individual...
...clipping from The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, appearing in an adjoining column, declares as one with the privilege of knowledge that opposition to the House Plan is "inconsiderable", and is bound to decrease rapidly. This optimism might pass unnoticed, a species of whistling to keep the courage up in the face of the facts, if its zeal did not plunge into a series of generalities as unwarranted as they are sweeping...
...known what was going on from moment to moment. Further, there are reasons for believing that the undergraduate papers do not reflect undergraduate sentiment as a whole. Even the social clubs, which at first were inclined to look with disfavor on the house plan because they feared it might lead to their extinction, have changed their views. We have no doubt that discussion and the spreading of information will remove even the slight opposition which now exists in any quarter. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
Harvard owns all the land abutting on Colonial Way, which, moreover, is but rarely used and not at all necessary. The principal complaints in regard to its closure were based on a possible depreciation in property value which might take place if a House were built shutting off neighboring residences from their outlook over the Charles. One real estate expert foresaw a possible loss of as high as 60 percent...