Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That there are relatively few fatal injuries in collegiate ranks is obvious That the boy who died might have been the victim of a capricious fate is possible. But it is hardly sane to assume that a suicide, caused by football worries, accompanied, too, by a note wishing the school team well, can be the result of anything but an overstress on the part of the authorities, and a resulting unbalanced sense of relative values on the part of the student...
Whatever her tendencies toward the maternal might be. Mrs. Fiske was in no condition to see babies. It was her opening night, she had been generous and thoughtful all evening on the stage, she was tired. So she passed off the invitation as the pleasantest of pleasantries, laughed sweetly and patronizingly, and before the proud mother was quite aware of it, the door was closed...
Harvard University is itself directly affected by the censorship of books now being so actively discussed. J. S. Phillips, proprietor of the well-known bookstore on Harvard Square, recently made a special trip to New York, that he might secure admission into the United States of copies of Rousseau's "Confessions," and of the complete works of Rabelais, both of which are used in French courses given by the University. For the time being, the situation is very bad, as all books are tied up at the customs office pending developments...
...this game. "What we particularly desire," said Mr. Fisher, "is a closer contact between Harvard and the Southwest, and we took this football game as a short-cut to our goal. You know, two strange business men can get closer together in an afternoon of golf than they might in weeks of correspondence, phone calls, or even business visits. It is the same in inter-university matters, and we indulge the hope that this football game will quickly engender an intersectional fraternalism between Harvard and the Southwest which could not be brought about by formalism and purely academic interchanges...
...very anxious that these meetings may be gatherings of an informal nature, with none of the atmosphere of a lecture," said Professor Garrod last night. "I do not want to spend the time delivering a monologue; that will deprive the gatherings of any advantage they might offer for the informal, interesting discussion of subjects which students will, I hope, suggest...