Word: means
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sound financial footing but was even making money out of its business. But it is readily seen that this balance is not a cash balance but is made up largely of stock, fixtures, etc., and that the actual cash gains of the year were very small. I do not mean to imply that the society is not financially sound, but merely to suggest that the business has been run on a close margin and that the members have had the benefit of all the profits. But I fear students do not wholly appreciate the conveniences of the Co-operative. Many...
...wrote many books besides a number of remarkable magazine articles. The best known of his works are his "Prose Writers of Germany," his "Primaeval World of Hebrew. Tradition," and his "Reason in Religion." He has published many translations from the German, and is besides a poet of no mean order, and the author of many beautiful hymns...
...work of our athletes by turning out in large numbers at the sports this afternoon. Although the management has been put to great inconvenience by the lack of an efficient trainer, yet, thanks to the energetic work of the association, we trust that our representatives will meet with no mean success on the 26th. At all events, we feel sure that some fine records will be made this afternoon, and that no one will regret having witnessed the sports...
...offered by the college may be thrown open to the student who is seeking a non-classical education just as freely as it is open to the strictly classical student under the present regime. It is easy to see what the adoption of this innovation by the college would mean. It would mean that the college is following out to its legitimate results the principles of the elective system; that it is thoroughly permeated by the new ideas of the century in the direction of liberality and freedom of studies; and that in this direction as in all others...
Pater: - "Chinamen? What do you mean...