Word: mean
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...must post their scores on the scoreboard there before 6 o'clock on the day of their match. Men playing on Soldiers Field must drop their scores into a box, provided and marked for that purpose, in the CRIMSON Office before 6.30 o'clock. Failure to do this will mean that both contestants will be defaulted...
...broke out the University of Berlin, with 14,000 students, was well on the way to leadership. Today, however, it is lagging far in the rear. While it is hardly fair to compare Columbia's statistics with those of other American universities because the word "student" does not mean the same to all of them, the tremendous public service which Columbia performs cannot be overlooked. Before the year is over 20,000 men and women will have come under the direct, personal influence of the university. Some of them will study in the regular class-rooms in the various departments...
...admission of the Elis to the league will mean a great deal of added interest as far as the University is concerned. Yale had a good team this year and promises strong opposition to the University, which has generally led the league in the past...
...heading over your editorial "A Maxim Silencer" is also in bad taste for it goes far from silencing. Preparedness does not mean militarism. Let me refer you to the articles of William Howard Taft in the Saturday Evening Post of June 5 and of Thomas Edison in the New York Times of May 30. Both of these advocate large supplies of ammunition without militarism...
...Harvard many good men. Undoubtedly the examinations are not infallible, and it is also true that their very existence discourages men from attempting them who could pass them if they made the effort. But the proposal to adopt a system of certification is very radical. It might mean a marked lowering of standards, or else the flooding of the College with students who would have to be sent home after their first mid-year examinations. Moreover, the fact that a man has had the initiative and ambition to take and pass these tests raises a presumption that he really wants...