Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...result of office selling has lowered the standard of our Congressmen, and made them mean, underhand purchasers of what ought to be the free gift of the people. It has led to an enormous increase in our expenses, and has brought so long a train of evils with it, that it is impossible to enumerate them. The practice of office bartering first made its appearance in the presidency of Jefferson. During General Jackson's time it increased rapidly, since he always went on the principle "to the victors belong the spoils." The system became gradually thoroughly established...
...take a very important place. Such courses as that of Dr. Fiske, and those given under the auspices of the French Department and the Cercle Francais, of the Memorial Society, of the Civil Service Reform Club, and of other societies, all tend to make the intellectual life here mean more to every member of the University than it has ever done before. Of course these lectures, affording as they do a mental recreation must always be subordinate to the fixed and regular demands of college work and there must necessarily be a limit to their number. But though this...
...child we see the beginnings of many forms of wickedness; he has faults which would be inexcusable in older people, but they are naughtiness rather than wickedness. In the man, however, these faults show meanness and smallness. There is not a single sin which is not mean. Avarice shows a mean spirit in the relations between a miserly landlord and his tenants; the drunkard is mean in the neglect of his family. In short, committing sin shows the choice of what is petty, mean, and small in place of what is generous and grand...
This list of statistics of the various freshman classes is of interest though not an absolutely safe means of comparison, as some of the figures represent the entering class of the university while others simply mean the academic class...
...portion of our members and friends. Now that we are to be incorporated, it is necessary to settle finally this question of the name. Various suggestions have been made, but thus far no substitute for the present name, pleasing to any large number, has been suggested. Though it may mean nothing to persons not familiar with our work, Prospect Union has come to mean much to many of us both in college and in Cambridge and Boston. Perhaps it would be wise to let well enough alone...