Word: means
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most trying day of his life. But now certain men refuse to follow this custom, simply because they wish selfishly to have the use of their own rooms on that day, when nearly every senior is a host and hundreds of their guests demand accommodation. Such action is intensely mean and thoroughly detestable. We trust that it is simply thoughtlessness that has caused these under-class men to refuse. With the case thus put before them they should not hesitate a moment to offer their rooms to those who so sadly need them on class...
...piggy's ears and make him squeal whenever said proctor was engaged in the study of the classics. The result would be a rush by the proctor for the student's rooms, where the student was to be found studying (?), peacefully seated on his window-seat. Piggy, in the mean time had been deposited beneath, and no sound disturbed the tranquillity of the scene. On the departure of the hated proctor, a broad grin would spread over the countenance of the joker, and in a little while the scene would be repeated with variations. But when it was rumored that...
...older school. Though the more orthodox scholars of archaeology on the continent take exception to many of Dr. Waldstein's innovations, the fair-minded critic cannot fail to discern the traces of true genius in his doctrines. Though a very young man, the lecturer has attained no mean position in the scientific world, as the distinctions lately conferred upon him fully attest. Sever 11 ought to prove too small for those who wish to hear the lecture to-morrow night...
...steadily lost in number of students and hence in influence. The last remaining reason for entering the school was removed when the college course was made elective and the requirement of Greek at entrance abolished. This decrease in attendance at the Lawrence school has been thought by some to mean a discouragement of science teaching at Cambridge, - but the reverse is the case. In view of these altered relations, President Eliot, in his report, recommends its discontinuance as a separate organization, and that the college faculty be interested with the power of recommending students for the degree...
...freshmen were justly indignant at this answer, and at an indignation meeting of the class some rashly shook their umbrellas in the air and denounced the girls as mean things...