Word: mean
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work of the CRIMSON is done under limitations. The editors have many other demands on their time and energy, and the resources of the paper are by no means professional. Limitations mean imperfections, and, in consequence, the ideal CRIMSON and the actual CRIMSON are necessarily apart. Steadily, however, the gap between the two has been diminished by the work of previous boards, and the retiring ninety-four board in particular, have done great service to the paper by the number of solid improvements which they have made. It will be the endeavor of the incoming board to continue their work...
...that there have been recently and that there still continue works that have brought us to a much better state than was enjoyed by the people of fifty years ago. And all these changes are effected by the force of the spirit of Christ. This does not mean the increase of churches alone, for a man may have in him the spirit of Christ without being able to repeat a creed. It means rather the spirit that is bringing help to the poor, deliverance to the captives, and "preaching the acceptable year of the Lord" Let us be thankful that...
...country's welfare. We cannot look to our party for political purity, for from the highest to the lowest politician there are stains of corruption and taints of pollution. There is no form of vice which is not by them well represented; till the term politician has come to mean rogue, and this because the politician is the mere tool of his party; he loses his independence of action and becomes stamped Democrat or Republican, as the case may be. And where may we find the cure for these evils? It lies in the great mass of men who vote...
...wrong. Unless we are very much mistaken a majority of Harvard professors and some at least of the overseers also feel that it is unsatis factory, but,- and here is the important thing,- under existing circumstances an unsatisfactory thing is the only thing possible. This does not mean that Harvard will never give degrees direct to students of Radcliffe College; under existing conditions, the overseers simply do not care to take the complete responsibility of thus conferring degrees. The signature of the president and the seal of the University are rather in the nature of an endorsement than a first...
...among his fellow-workers at the college office and among the students was always a source of pleasure. His interest in life gave him an immense fund of sympathy with men, so that no story of suffering or want, nothing which told of life narrowed or crippled, was too mean for him to hear. And where he saw life thus narrowed or crippled his greatest pleasure was to help it regain breadth and health. His life was one of constant activity. No man connected with the University was busier than Mr. Bolles. His official duties made large demands upon...