Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reading Period, the membership of the Dean's List shows a slight decrease in enrollment. The figures are far from alarming, showing only a drop from 18.4 of the total registration last year to 16.8 in the records just published, and the fluctuations are so small that they might readily be accounted for by temporary considerations such as the severity of examinations...
There are also some illustrations. They might perhaps be more intelligently criticised by somebody who had at least taken a fine arts course in college, but if the picture of a sad looking fellow by Peter Teigen is really, as he says, the portrait of an athlete, well...
...replacement of this method by one less damaging of the resources of the country is obviously an essential to prosperity, and the policy of the United States has been directed toward this end. Whatever slight injustice may be done a discontented general whose revolt might have succeeded but for our influence, the people at large are certainly far better off and there is always hope that the day when elections will mean something may come in the near future and take away the necessity for the more violent expressions of opinion...
Although it might be advantageous from a financial standpoint to hold the deciding match in the Boston Garden which can accommodate 12,000 spectators while the New Haven Arena holds only 3500, Harvard has signed an agreement with Yale to play the deciding game of the series at New Haven, and a change could not be made without the consent of the Yale authorities...
Greater efficiency in the management of student affairs might occur with the inception of this experienced direction. Were it not that extra-curricular activities exist for other ends beside the mere accomplishment of office routine, the plan would have no apparent flaw. But the function and benefits of these undergraduate activities are so essentially divorced from the idea of formal instruction that any move to bring the two nearer together very much resembles an encroachment. Far more ultimate good is to be had from the self-teaching and individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention...