Word: mean
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their own natures, I suppose Montaigne to have been as striking an instance as could readily be found. He more than any other man cut loose the modern from the ancient world, and emancipated the human mind from a pedantic and slavish deference to the past. I do not mean that he did it consciously, but he had the courage to trust in his own instincts and to read the world with his own eyes-not in a Greek or Latin or Hebrew translation...
...Verrezana. The doings of these four are of the greatest importance in the history of art, not only because of what they built up but because of what they pulled down. It was they who dealt the death blow to religion as the object of art. This does not mean that religious subjects were discarded by them, but that they sought art truth rather than religious truth. For them a Venus was as good as a Madonna. They were interested in art for art's sake, not for the sake of religion...
Many of the prayers and hymns of the Episcopal Church are in words that convey the deepest meaning that is in the power of language, and if we consider carefully what we say we think it is not possible that we should be sincere. If we cannot be, it is more than useless to repeat these prayers and phrases that are only so many empty words. It hurts ourselves and it hurts the Church. We can bring ourselves, however, to say these prayers and to mean them by comparing our own very imperfect lives with the life of Christ...
...necessarily, changed also. The University is accumulating a great stock of mechanical apparatus, and this can be used without detriment throughout the year; yet the vacations of the University are such that, for a quarter of the year, no use would ordinarily be made of the apparatus. This would mean a clear waste of opportunity...
...means of making the equipment serve some educational end during the whole year has been found in the summer school. The work in this school is, to be sure, not precisely similar to that of the regular college year; while some of the courses may be counted for a degree in the College or the Scientific School, yet the number of Harvard students who attend for this purpose is very small, and, in fact, such attendance is discouraged in some of the departments. The students are of a different class,-men and women only temporarily connected with the University...