Word: meaningly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expense of which they have won success, we easily forget or underrate it. If more men had trained, even but little, a nine victorious for the first time in many years, would not need to wait six months for a struggling attempt to give it cups. By all means, then, let your correspondent's suggestions receive the encouragement they deserve. Not, I mean, by the college authorities only, but by our own selves. We must even bear in mind that by so much as our own power is increased in any direction, so far is the power of the whole...
...Greek republics. One danger lies in the tendency to subordinate the state to the individual. Passing to the christian conception of the world, the speaker emphasized the idea that when we speak of the kingdoms of this world as destined to become the kingdoms of our Lord, we mean not merely China and Japan, but the kingdoms of trade, art, learning, science, government. The institutions, customs, opinions, feelings of society must become Christian...
...have soon as strong a possible representation from the three lower classes. There are now four editors from '88, and four from '89; we shall take on one more editor from each class as soon as men have proved their fitness for the position; by fitness we do not mean mere ability to write weak editorials on nothing, but to handle real, strong, forcible English, to write clearly and legibly, and above all things to have ideas. There are undoubtedly twenty men in either class qualified to fill these places, and we want to know them all, or at least...
...preceding paper has sufficiently discussed the impossible limitations of the elective system, and has shown with some minuteness the grounds of their impossibility. By limitation of choice some appear to mean making choice less. I mean fortifying it, keeping it true to itself, making it more. Control that diminishes the quantity of choice is one thing; control that raises the quality, quite another. Old educational systems are often said to have erred by excess of authority. I could not say so. The elective system, if it is to possess the future, must become as authoritative as they. More accurately...
...have noticed that such men, in most cases, get their scholarships under the special provision, when their records as scholars would not entitle them to the least consideration. Now, if a man in easy circumstances - such, I mean, as will afford him the ordinary necessary comforts and pleasures of college life - can have the "gall" to take pecuniary help under a special provision, when really needy classmates of his, who are head and shoulders above him in scholarship, will have to scrape and pinch, or possibly leave college for want of the money he spend on fine apartments or society...