Word: mean
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...imagination of the heart; he penetrates the soul. For this reason he has a sympathetic appreciation of the Middle Ages and is the best historian of Jeanne d'Arc. But after 1843 Michelet lost the equilibrium he had preserved between imagination and erudition; and history came to mean for him mere pamphlet writing...
...trustees in charge of the Lowell estate had fixed March 1 as the latest date at which the estate might be bought for a park, but have agreed to extend the time at least a month. In the mean time a special effort will be made by the committee to raise the remaining $14,000. An under committee is forming in Boston and others will be started in other cities. A plan of having a public meeting addressed by President Eliot and other speakers have been given...
...international isolation of the United States, I mean that attitude which it has purposely taken outside of the family circle of nations. This rule of isolation took its beginning from the Farewell Address of Washington and since that time it has been continuously handed down,- indeed it could hardly have been more faithfully followed if it had been a part of the constitution...
...ordinary young American very few names mean as much as does that of Lincoln. As the Civil War recedes further into the past, Lincoln is gradually rising in the estimation of the people, and the reverence which is felt for his memory is marked by the growing tendency to observe his birthday, as a date worthy of national commemoration. The special service, which is to be held in Appleton Chapel to mark the day, is then sure to appeal to the college...
...every branch of sport, by the similarity between the two universities in positions and institutions, by the strong ties of alumni friendships and rivalry, and by our own personal friendship with Harvard men gained for the most part by association at the same preparatory schools. All these things mean much, and have been absolute preventatives to our making binding arrangements with other colleges, which, once begun, could necessarily have no limit...