Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...make the life of those now resident in the University pleasanter, stronger and more united. Such service can be prompted only by an intense realization of what the University has done for them in their undergraduate days and a grateful desire to do what they can to make Harvard mean as much and more to their successors. A committee appointed from their number have made a careful study of the student life as it exists at present and have found that the de-centralization of interests coming with increased numbers and the elective system, in spite of the many advantages...
...only is sure to bring about a much more active competition for the prizes, and to increase their value proportionately, but also will serve as a very healthy stimulus to the courses in which the theses are written. Thus the work done in future for prizes will not mean so much time taken away from the equally important prescribed work, as was inevitable before; and to the pecuniary inducement which alone might have appealed to a man will be added that of obtaining honoralbe recognition in a line of work in which he has a genuine, scholarly, interest...
...professor of Law or of History, whose opinion is sure to carry weight, when he sees the President and Congress threatening war against a nation of our own flesh and blood, with whom we have every conceivable interest to live in peace, while war with them would mean putting back human civilization for half a century, and all on account of petty dispute between two nations in which he firmly believes we have no right whatever to interfere? Shall he join in the hue and cry and encourage by his example what he believes to be an unrighteous cause...
...temper to discsus the subject; nor are the merits of the Venezuela question the issue chiefly raised by Mr. Roosevelt, for upon that subject his communication may be left to have its due weight in proportion to the reasonable and convincing force of his arguments, and I do not mean to intimate either agreement or disagreement with his main position. The thing now chiefly to be noticed is his assumption that any criticism of the position taken by the government is disloyal,- "a discredit to Harvard College," "a spiritless submission to English demands," "The stock-jobbing timidity, the Baboo kind...
These games next spring are designed to be the first of a series of such meetings; consequently the success of this attempt would mean a great deal to international athletics of the future. The next meeting will be held at Paris on the occasion of the World's Exposition in 1900, and the third meeting, according to the present plans, in New York, in 1804. An executive committee for America is being chosen by Professor Sloane...