Word: mean
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...they fail it will be on account of the carelessness of the members of 1917. Twenty minutes is long enough for any man to rid himself of all obligations, and immediate responses to the letters sent out last week will be a great help to the committee and will mean a better edited Album. The giving up of twenty minutes is surely not too great a sacrifice to ask of the busiest of Seniors...
...close approach to the kernel of the matter is contained in a statement of President Lowell's that "Culture . . . does not mean the possession of a body of knowledge common to all educated men, for there is no such thing today. It denotes rather an attitude of mind than a specific amount of information...
...external features, the names of streets and parks, the jangling of old bells, the seasoned stone of the buildings, bridges and docks, and the "spire-shattered" sky. But frequently he seems to have been too busy being an imagist to be a poet as well. I do not mean to disparage imagism save when it becomes a conscious pose. Then it goes in search of the strange angle of vision, the unheard-of adjective, the interpretation of sounds in the terms of sight, of color in the terms of feeling and so forth. The author may adorn his poetry with...
...mean that Mr. Sanborn has forgotten to be a poet entirely; the lines I have quoted prove at least his good intentions, and I shall try presently to show that he has accomplished something besides the creation of crazy images. But we should have to look in vain among the ultra-brilliant conceits of Miss Lowell or the adjectival debauches of Mr. John Gould Fletcher for anything as incomprehensible as these lines from "Elevation...
...patronage of that large and democratic social organization. But the Union is representative of the undergraduate microcosm. Life in the larger world is more serious than it was before August, 1914. "The cigarette," wrote George Frederick Watts, "is the handmaid of idleness," and the diminishing consumption of cigarettes may mean that Harvard less faithfully answers the often quoted definition of the visiting Chinese savant who wrote, "They have a large athletic club here named Harvard. On days when it rains the students read books"; or the famous description of Artemus Ward that Harvard College was "pleasantly located...