Word: means
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...shop will mean much to students who desire to collect books and yet who do not know how to select their purchases or how much they should pay for them. Here there will always be some one to advise them; and already this new shop has an extremely interesting collection of rare editions and fine bindings. The greatest field for this new Yale institution will be in second-hand books of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Good editions of the writers of the Queen Anne and Georgian ages may be purchased reasonably and the time is not far away...
What is the meaning of the great trend toward the major athletic sports in the last half century? Does it mean that college life is becoming more frivolous? On the contrary, it means that it has a craving for greater reality. The college student is a man in growth without a man's responsibilities; he needs an ingredient in his life of something beside books in order to make his books themselves seem real to him; he needs a dash of physical effort and even risk. And there is nothing, at present, except the more strenuous phases of athletics that...
...theatre," Mr. Barker said, "is at its best when the play is regarded by the people not as a curious and exotic thing, carried on behind a row of footlights, but as a perfectly natural expression of the people themselves, handed over to experts. Acting does not mean pretending to be something else; it means interpreting something you are, or have assimilated through the medium of your personality. An actor playing his part is doing no more than a judge who interprets justice...
...view of the splendid showing made by Harvard men at the summer camps--a showing better than was made by either Yale or Princeton,--it is perhaps not too much to hope that enough men will answer the call to form an entire infantry regiment of 1200. This would mean that a little more than one-quarter of all the men in the University would enlist,--a number which seems reasonable since the military drill will in no way interfere with scholastic work or athletics...
...proposal for a military department does not include the abandonment of the group system, and its requirement that the student obtain a liberal cultural education. It would simply mean that men would have an opportunity to study and even concentrate in advanced military subjects, and that graduate students could make themselves experts in them. There would be no prescription, and no general exodus from other studies; and the courses could be made difficult enough to frighten away all but the serious-intentioned. The proposal is not to militarize the University any more than the existence of a chemical department...