Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats are now a weak minority in the Congress. Smith is "just as anxious" as before his nomination to see the Democrats come to glory. Smith has resolved never again to seek public office. But, if his anxiety for his party is as great as he says, might he not some day be persuaded to let public office seek him? Might he not, perhaps, be persuaded to enter Congress? This could easily be effected through a resignation from one friend (Senator Wagner) and an appointment from another (Governor Roosevelt). If by some pressure or prospect this should ever come...
...superior might of the Harvard line, along with the Crimson's possession of a stronger kicking game and a potentially powerful running attack, should combine with Yale weaknesses to give us our first triumph over the Blue since...
...should be a close game with the breaks counting for a great deal, and there is a good possibility of a scoreless tie, but the superior condition of the Crimson team, the superior might of the Crimson line, and the greater brilliance of the Crimson backs should carry us on to victory...
...best only hypothetical. It may be that more students are now concentrating in Economics than in English or any of the sciences because the propensities of the modern Harvard mind tend toward the pursual of a path midway between the strictly academic and the purely utilitarian; a second explanation might attribute the change to the added equipment and personnel of the Business School suggesting possibilities for the incipient graduate. In the latter case a ground training in the principles of Economics would probably prove of more value than a steeping in the Classics, English, or Chemistry...
...Abolishing the Yale football rally is abolishing a tradition. One might feel a little guilty about that, did he not know that the tradition has been soured by unspontaneity. The game is where it has always been, on the knees of the gods and the linemen. And at the needful moment, in the Yale Bowl, it will be for the cheering section to show that Harvard's old and inextinguishable pride in the Harvard team has lost nothing more than a blurring anachronism." November...