Word: meant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Perhaps there were sufficient grounds for maintaining secrecy in regard to the resolutions. It was probably meant in kindness to the students. They would be ignorant of the exact extent of the mine that was being secretly dug under their athletic interests, and of course would feel far more comfortable than if they knew just what threatened them. To us such an attempt at secrecy appears much like a stolen march. Students have built up various athletic organizations, and fostered an interest in athletic sports under great difficulties. This interest has been a source of great advantage to the students...
...concern to the students themselves. Its enforcement might debar bona-fide students in the Law or Medical schools, for instance, from rowing with the crew, playing on baseball, or football teams, and in general indulging in sports which are intended as a recreation. Thus a principle which is well meant, and is intended to prevent objectionable features in athletics, is vicious in its tendencies, and its advantages are outweighed by its objectionable results...
...sense there were only two colleges whose intellectual and physical contests arrest the attention and arouse the enthusiasm of the American people-Harvard and Yale. He hoped they would never come nearer together, but go on each endeavoring to show its own system to be the best, for that meant progress in education...
...that the same mind will obtain a more superficial knowledge when directed to many diverse subjects than when concentrated upon one only. It was this distinction between two equally intellectual men, employing their power, the one in a single direction, and the other in many different directions, that I meant to express by specialist and superficialist. Superficiality as only comparative, as what is profound to the uneducated man may seem entirely superficial to the specialist upon that subject. Your correspondent has certainly been very unfortunate in his experience with the "specialists of college," since he professes to have found them...
...very considerable item in a man's college career. Besides this, they supply the need of those who are willing to devote half a year to some special branch of a subject but are unable to assume the extra work that a half course for a whole year really meant, for the new courses only require one examination...