Word: mean
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...oarsmen on class eights and to the first boats of Eliot and Thayer Clubs today is the day of days. The "championship of the river" for their respective type of shell is no mean thing. Beyond the Locker Room at Newell these races may be regarded as wasted energy. More gifted roommates may have found it difficult to understand the "training" for such events. But to the man with the sweep the crowds on Harvard Bridge will be there to see his race, even though railway construction in reality accounts for the uninterested onlookers...
Henceforth the Japanese students and the scholar from Sweden or china will feel himself to be and will be an important cog in the University machinery. Athletics, class matters, business of undergraduate importance will mean more to him. He will find a new and untouched phase of college life...
...therefore, a compliment of no mean nature to be asked to lend support to fellow students in a far country, even though under the circumstances, that support must needs be moral rather than physical...
...Cambridge Fire Department will not allow the holding of two successive parties in the Union, is at best mysterious. Does the Fire Department fear that two such gathering will result in a combustible effect? Or does the Fire Chief consider that the left-over warmth of one evening will mean no less than sheer conflagration the next? Frankly, we are puzzled. Perhaps the Department's statistician has slightly miscalculated the average life of an undergraduate cigarette...
Beginning with this year, Greek will no longer be required for entrance to the Bachelor of Arts course, and Latin will not be required of S.B. students in case they offer added requirements in mathematics and modern languages. This does not mean that Princeton's former policy of the encouragement of the course in the classics will be in any way slighted, for opportunities for advanced work in that field will still be offered to undergraduates...