Word: means
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...suppose it is one of those funny alphas privative that don't mean anything sometimes, is n't it? You see," complainingly, "when I'd finished Homer, I could n't read any more Greek on account of my eyes, so I don't know as much as I ought...
...bidden to come in, - a gentleman whose selection for a post abroad, where he will have to tread in the footsteps of Washington Irving, has done honor to Harvard University, honor to him, and honor to the administration which made it, and will do honor to the country. I mean Professor Lowell of Harvard University. Him I call upon to respond to the toast: 'The highest use of learning is one of the most potent of the agencies to produce the highest order of public life...
...rubber game between our Nine and the Lowells, played last Saturday, was extremely unsatisfactory, and gave the Lowells an opportunity of showing a mean and cowardly spirit that was contemptible...
...Amherst Student has a very patriotic and rather sentimental article on the "American Westminster," which we find, at the end of the fourth column, to mean the hearts of our countrymen; a sepulchre to which the author of the piece consigns not only the Father of his Country, - for whom it was originally invented, - but also all our other heroes. However, patriotism in a collegian is so rare a virtue that we will not criticise the form in which it comes...
...unworthy our attention. The first is a violent attack on Darwinism, in which the train of argument is somewhat as follows: "Darwin denies the Biblical theory of the Creation, and tells us instead that men are descended from monkeys; but who do the monkeys spring from?" Can the Archangel mean to prove that the Biblical and Darwinian theories are compatible, and that Adam and Eve were monkeys? This article, however, only proves the necessity of religion; the other proves that of the Roman Catholic religion, and its superiority to others, by giving a long list of famous men, most...