Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...giving only loose change to professors. Another believes that college entrance requirements are at the bottom of the accumulation of woes. And now comes Abraham Flexner in the Atlantic Monthly for October who avows that the trouble lies in the fact that the term university has no definite meaning in America as it has on the Continent and in Great Britain. It can mean almost anything, since no copyright, legal or traditional, protects its use. Some American universities, the writer asserts, are nothing but "a chaotic mixture of primary, intermediate, industrial and theological classes." Others are "educational department stores with...
...details of Prayer Book Revision thus to be presented to the Convention in October vary in importance. But through them all runs a commanding principle. This principle is reality. We are trying to avoid vain repetitions, the use of archiac words or phrases which, to the ordinary layman, mean either nothing or something untrue, and such length of prayer or praise in any one part of any service that the mind becomes numb and the worship ' of the heart ceases...
...administer the present enrolment limit to allow admission to Harvard to those men possessing in the greatest degree the qualities which make for leadership. This does not mean the lowering of present academic requirements, and the CRIMSON wants to make it particularly clear that it does not mean suspending these academic requirements in favor of the less tangible qualifications of character, personality, and future promise. What it does mean is to impose these tests in addition to academic requirements in order to reduce the Freshman class to its limit of one thousand...
...course it's a mean dig on Lampy to get me to tell the Crime what I think of his first-attempt. They know I am an arty, or think I am, but what's to be said of scrawls? You can't fool me into thinking all the talent is gone and that bright pallettes and nimble wits and dashing brushes can't crash through with better dope than Lamp's Freshman sample...
...events transpired it became evident that Maréchal Pétain did indeed mean business by his drive upon Bribane. Tanks advanced, smashing through frail adobe huts like mastodons treading upon eggshells. French 75's spotted the heights, and sent fragments of the rocky butte, deadly as shrapnel, splintering among the Moorish tribesmen. The whole mountain, which is topped by the stronghold village of Bribane, was enveloped by the smoke of burning crops and villages and the fumes of exploding shells. Armored cars and cavalry advanced up the easier slopes, while battalion after battalion of infantry stormed the steep western salient...