Word: meant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Christ meant first to live; deficient vitality not excessive vitality causes the mischief in the world. More life and fuller is what we want...
...were Cornell and Amherst. Yale, Princeton and the others voted against it. In the next motion to allow safeties to race with ordinary bicycles, Harvard gained a few more supporters but not enough to carry the motion. The question of the tug-of-war, like that of the safeties, meant a change in the constitution, and required, therefore, a two-thirds vote. This meant that in order to abolish the tug-of-war the motion would have to be carried by a vote of 8 to 4. The vote was 8 to 4, but in favor of keeping...
...Buttery." The poor freshmen had a hard time of it indeed. No freshman could wear his hat in the college yard unless it rained, showed, or hailed, or unless his hands were full. No freshman could speak to a senior (and a senior for him meant any upper classman) with his hat on; or have it on in a senior's room, or in his own if a senior were there. All fresmen were obliged to run on errands at any time except in study hours or after nine in the evening. When on an errand he could make...
...easy to give a dollar to a man, but it is hard to give hope to a man's soul. This is the mystery of life. We know how continually God's greatest gifts are passing away, and we cannot let them go till they have done what God meant them to do for us. There is always a sadness in what boyhood has not done for boyhood, and manhood for manhood in what God has given...
...more and more regions of knowledge. as well as the growth of this Idea itself. Few of these books are technically considered. philosophical treatises. Out of the whole mass of such, and their successors in each department, the Philosophy of Evolution has grown. Dates of first editions alone are meant. The books are chosen as pioneers not always as of an equally permanent worth...