Word: mean
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moreover, this fact necessarily makes for a different mental attitude on the part of the undergraduates. Their competition is far less strenuous. I do not mean that the play is less vigorous. But it tends to make the mere winning or losing of less relative importance. It is as though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only...
...should rather be blamed for allowing an asset, as a correspondent this morning puts it, to go unappreciated. Plenty of men in College have never been inside of Appleton, and a lot more have never been there under favorable circumstances. The average student has no conception of what Chapel means or may mean--because he has never taken the trouble to find...
...many years there has exhibit among Harvard students a sentient against the serving of intoxicants functions given under the auspices of University. This sentiment has not be confined to undergraduates. It is class-meetings alone from which mean excluded through an unwillingness make themselves conspicuous by them stinence. The temperance movement now national and even international scope, and it is only natural that a student body so representative as the Harvard should at last begin to explore itself vigorously upon this vital question of the hour...
...reported to the Public Service Commission yesterday that the Cambridge subway is operated at an annual loss of $400,000, and therefore the petition of the residents of Cambridge to build a station at Dana street has been turned down. It would mean an additional loss of $60,000. The company has decided however, to make another exit at Central square to better accommodate the late-afternoon crowds...
...alarming mistake has, I think, been made by the Student Council in the matter of Freshman nominations. There are but two nominees to each office. Yet it is surely evident that there will be a comparatively limited number of men who will know--and by this I mean acquaintance intimate enough for distinction--both of the candidates between whom it is their duty to decide. With an electorate of 700, with a three months opportunity for encounter, how many voters, think you, have a knowledge of the personality--I might almost say name--of an arbitrary two of their number...