Word: mean
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more liberal policy could hardly be asked. By the foundation of club tables, and by increasing the number of members at each, as the improved food and service gives satisfaction, members of the University can meet the co-operative advances of the Memorial Hall management. The new plan will mean a cash loss to Memorial Hall, and indirectly to the University's finances, at the beginning, but if successful in the end, the permanent gain of re-establishing Memorial as the representative College Commons will far outweigh the temporary loss...
...even if he only thinks he needs them, it may be conducive to the happiness of us all to keep him happy--but I wish that somehow he could feel instinctively about each purchase, that if he could get on perfectly well without this or that, it would mean just so much more good turf for next spring's Leiter Cup baseball. Such a spirit of loyalty and idealism on the part of each man would make a lot of difference in the budget, and in Soldiers Field...
Harvard has a reserve strength in its graduates, of this quality, which it has not used, and could use. Does this mean great idle capital...
Under the present system of probation, no student fears it very much unless he is an athlete, a member of the Musical Clubs, or has some such outside interest. To the majority of undergraduates, probation means practically nothing but the necessity of keeping College engagements regularly. Some men get placed upon probation with a surprising regularity at certain times every year. Many come to expect it as a matter of course-rather a bore, indeed, because it places them under the necessity of ceasing cutting, but otherwise hardly worthy of passing notice. That such an attitude should be allowed...
...addition to this ideal of moderate rather than excessive wealth, the busi- ness man should entertain a right standard of living. The simple life is undoubtedly the ideal life, but the simple life does not mean a life without comfort and refinement. It does mean a life that is not lowered by undue extravagance and the reckless expenditure of large sums of money...