Word: mean
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...outcome of the whole affair. To hold the scrimmage about this particular tree is one of the most generally recognized traditions connected with the University, and until some valid reason is advanced showing why the exercises at this tree are dangerous or out of place, they will mean more to the average Harvard man if held where they have been held for the last eighty years...
...that Columbia is to have no crew this year has caused great excitement in the college. Tomorrow there will be a mass meeting of undergraduates to protest against the decision and to find some way out of the financial difficulties into which the management of the crew has fallen. Mean while the candidates will continue their regular work...
...least, those who did go to the infirmary for any length of time would be getting more than they paid for, and many of them might be better able to pay for what they really received than some of those who were paying for them. I do not mean by these arguments to cry down the project of an infirmary; the experience of past years has shown our urgent need of one only too well. Would it not be better and fairer, however, if each man paid for what he received? The charges would be very reasonable as paying expenses...
...whole university is now interested in the coming debate with Harvard. The men who have been chosen to represent Princeton in this contest are hard at work and are putting forward every effort in the hope that they will be able to defeat Harvard, whom they realize as no mean adversary. The inter-hall committee on debate has decided to hold a supper at the Princeton Inn immediately after the debate, at which the debaters from both Harvard and Princeton will be present...
...should be used, that the men shall be serviceable when the most important games occur. To win over Princeton, Pennsylvania or Yale is the great aim of the year and of more importance than to win over the many teams brought against Harvard week after week. I do not mean to say we should have none of such, but is there not too much hammering and especially just before the great game. Only one week ago Harvard had a severe contest with a strong team and only one week later the most important game of the year was to come...