Word: means
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Advocate, completing fifty years and a hundred volumes, pats herself gently on the back. The old lady is out of debt--no mean achievement in literary circles. One of her sons has been President, and lots of people want him to be President again. Others have attained reputations, national or local. Surprisingly few, considering how prolific she can be at times (notice the list of Senior editors) have publicly disgraced...
...militia officers of the South," said General Wood, "favor a transfer of the militia into a Federal force. Such a transfer would mean a great gain in military strength and increased efficiency in the militia. The University Regiment has attracted widespread interest among Southern colleges, and has started a national movement for a strong body of reserve officers. The field is not only a large one, but an exceptionally good one, and our aim shall be now to continue organizing and recruiting until a body of 50,000 officers is available...
...mankind in Europe. Men would do well to bear in mind Professor Caullery's two half-courses before making their selection. They are primarily biological; yet they should throw some light on the eternal social questions, "Is evolution progress?" and "How can it be so guided as to mean improvement...
...interini. The fathers and mothers, especially those who have come from the West and South for this event, have a claim to seats at Commencement as great as that of the graduate. And until all these are provided for--until the degrees are conferred in the Stadium, that may mean--Commencement Day will not be a successful culmination of the year's work...
...courses in history students who have lived with the Romans elsewhere than in the Forum and on the battlefields of Gaul, who have known other Greeks than Homer's heroes. It will be the gift of a new literature to cherish while life lasts. And it will mean the true socialization of the classics. After all, there is no reason why it should not be as natural for an engineering student to read Sophocles as to read the Bible. To give engineering students Latin and Greek under present conditions would be to waste time needed for technical studies...