Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that the development of the leg-work of the crew has no more than been begun. The crew has the watermanship and the good time of a fast crew and it is not too much to prophecy that it will soon have a drive with the legs which will mean speed...
...seven degrees of blessedness, and Dante talked with the joyful spirits, and increased in wisdom. Still led by the wonderful reflected light in the eyes of Beatrice, Dante ascends among the fixed stars. Here his eyes are cleared, and he looks back at the earth, which seems so mean and little, and smiles. Above him is the living light of Christ so bright that even his eyes can not endure it. He is now tested by St. John and by St. Peter in regard to Faith, Hope and Charity. In these he is not found wanting, and he rises still...
...Kirkland on the steps of University Hall? What do we know of the life of the Harvard student in colonial times, of the old college customs and exercises, of the part Harvard actually played in the Revolution? Does the fact that British soldiers were quartered in Harvard and Massachusetts mean nothing to us? What do we know of the later life of the college, of its gradual growth, of the great men who passed four years of their lives beneath the shade of these very elms? Is John Harvard anything more than a name to most...
...editorial upon the football question advances the argument, by no means novel, that football keeps its followers from "going to the devil." If the picture of that personage drawn for us by C. A. Pierce '96 in "Mephistopheles, Gentleman," is an accurate one we doubt if even the charms of football will prevent any of us from seeking his acquaintance, for he is a "gentleman" par excellence. The story displays ingenuity and imagination of no mean order...
Eckhart is one of the most noteworthy examples of the believers in early German mystic ideas. He was born about 1260, and after receiving a good education he entered the Dominican order, and became a preacher of no mean ability. His beliefs, though rather startling to his uneducated countrymen, were by no means new. He taught the Catholic religion, but he was so original and independent in his views, that his preaching became the thought of a soul alone with God. He arose to considerable eminence in Germany and held various offices in his religious order. These offices were taken...