Word: means
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...noteworthy that the committee of the overseers, in their recent report, absolutely neglected, in enumerating the various athletic sports at college, to mention the most popular one, that which is free from the numerous moral and physical abuses to which, it is said, the others are subject. I mean tennis. It is the most popular, if we may judge by the number who take exercise in the various games It is not brutal, or dangerous; nor does the excitement of the contest tend to cause participants or spectators "to resort to methods which their cooler judgment would condemn." Furthermore, this...
...familiar with the facts. Every one knows that the Crew wants money and that it must have money in order to carry on the preparations for the race at New London next June. If every man would save a certain sum-more or less, according to his means-which he would otherwise spend uselessly, and devote that sum to the University Crew, we are sure he would never regret it. Now is the time to show what stuff Harvard men are made of; to show that they are not mean, nor stingy, nor, worst of all, indifferent; to show...
...rests the question of success or failure. The members of the lower classes may not feel the weight of the responsibility as much as do the members of the higher class; but they must remember that in their hands lies the future of the system. The prayer bell should mean more than a mere notification that it is twenty minutes to nine: it should arouse in every heart a sense of duty to be fulfilled. There is no time for procrastination. We cannot put off attendance at prayers from day to day with any safety. The system is being tested...
...affirmative by W. Coulson, S. S. He briefly sketched the relations of Canada with England while a colony, under the old system of navigation laws. Then only was Canada a source of prosperity to the mother country; now the dominion has become a heavy burden. Annexation did not mean war by any means, for England would not feel sorry to part with the drain upon her resources. The practical business men in Canada were all in favor of annexation; the sentimentalists alone opposed it. The resources of Canada are great, but as yet undeveloped; the amalgamation of its population...
...doing everything in their power to get the faculty to allow our nines to play against professionals, and if it does not seem best to them to start a petition, we should not find fault with them for that and denounce them as if they were employing no other means to obtain the desired result. They are the best judges. As a matter of fact, we have been assured by the management that they have been very far from idle. And simply because they do not choose to tell us just what steps they have taken is no reason...