Word: means
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...greatest assets for a young man entering business is the ability to write letters in a clear, simple style without unnecessary words and phrases. Therefore this course should be regarded as a temporary hospital for men disabled in English. Hard work on the part of the patient will mean a rapid recovery and an early discharge...
...much in recent years as to require the highest degree of training on the part of the officer. To exercise intelligent command of troops, to know how to lead and to care for men, to make brain and body meter with the greatest gain and the minimum loss, mean close study and constant application covering a period of years, not months...
Though you have but crossed the threshold, you are so much better prepared to carry on the task of manhood service than are those who have been less fortunate, less inspired, than yourselves; and your preparation will mean, in time, that you will count as greater factors in avoiding war, or lesser sufferers if it should come...
Only a man who fails to comprehend what the abolishment of such an institution would mean will cast his vote against compulsory membership and the establishing of the Harvard Union on a firm financial basis...
...vote which is to be taken on Wednesday and Thursday of this week will greatly influence the Board of Trustees in their final verdict about compulsory membership. An adverse decision will probably result, if a large favorable vote is not cast by the undergraduates. A few hundred votes will mean nothing, but should over half the college signify their approval or disapproval of compulsory membership, then the Board of Trustees must take into account such a representative opinion...