Word: meant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Mott Haven Cup will go to Yale permanently this spring unless Harvard or Pennsylvania wins the meet. For this reason, a victory in track athletics never meant more to the University than it does this year, and the season cannot be brought to a successful close unless more men come out for the team. Of the colleges who enter the intercollegiate meet this year, Yale is undoubtedly the strongest, and, as in the spring of 1901. Harvard's only hope lies in second and third string...
...morning he went to work breaking rocks for a roadway; he supported himself through the week and by the end of it paid off the debt of his first day's board and food. His lesson was a stern one, but it was worth while. He learned what it meant to fight out his own fight alone and to pay for his own mistakes. This, with a real comprehension of what citizenship means, is what the Republic is meant to teach all its citizens and does teach with extraordinary success...
...meetings of graduate students which take place in Phillips Brooks House Monday evenings from 6.45 to 7.30 are for frank discussion of personal ideals. They are meant to further acquaintance among members of the Graduate School, and to offer especially for these men a parallel to the general religious meetings of the Harvard Christian Association. Without limitation to sect or creed, they admit perfect freedom of individual views, and are quite without formality...
...Freshman class was held last evening in the living-room of the Union. R. Ernst '03 presided, and speeches were made by Major Higginson h'82, and Professor A. Lawrence Lowell '77, who welcomed the new men to the University and to the Union, which, Major Higginson said, is meant to be a common meeting place for all Harvard men. The University Glee Club then sang several songs, in some of which all the men present took part...
...lectures on April 3 will be Professor Richard Gotthiel of Columbia University. The subject is "Zionism," by which is meant the movement carried on by the rich Jews of Europe and America to get possession of a large part of Palestine, and to send thither the poor Russian Jews, who are suffering in their present surroundings...