Word: meant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...every subject, said President Eliot, there is apt to be a word that needs definition. By the word scholar, is not meant the young student, but the man who devotes himself to observation, recording, discovery; the man who is going to be a scholar as long as he lives. In the last fifty years there has been a great change in the world's conception of a scholar. A scholar used to occupy himself with philosophy, literature, or some kindred work, but now we see scholars in a great variety of fields. It makes no difference what the scholar...
Pointing out how strong was the influence of the scholar in Italy during the revival of learning, Dr. Sandys went on to show how natural it was that virtue, which had meant manliness in the Roman Age and goodness in the Middle Ages, in this period came to mean mainly a knowledge of Latin. The theory of education in the Middle Ages was unfolded for us by the treatises of Aeneas Sylvius, and its practice illustrated by the writings of Vittorino Guarino and others. But these men were theorists; far greater were the two teachers who exemplify the practice...
...important lecture to be given this afternoon in the Fogg Lecture Room at 4.30 o'clock by Mr. Surette of Columbia University? The lecture is to be given upon one of the greatest of Beethoven's compositions,--the string quartet in F major, op. 59, No. 1, and is meant to be a preparation for an intelligent hearing of this same wonderful work, which is to be performed by the Kneisel Quartet at the last Chamber Concert next Monday evening. Suggestive comments will be made and the whole quartet is to be played upon the Pianola. It is hoped that...
There is the usual grist of light jingles; an accurate and appropriate editorial with just a touch of joviality; special notices and printed notes of average entertaining power; some rules for the deportment of Freshmen at beer nights,--excellent if seriously meant; a timely satire upon our besetting sin of megalomania; and a truly amusing "take-off" of Mr. Walter Camp's "last words" on football...
Institutions, Mr. Bryce said, are meant to work for a particular people at a particular time. Not only is there a permanent element in political history to be dealt wit--human nature; there are also other elements which, however, are either local or over changing--environment, the stage of civilization, the state of communication, social classes, racial character, historical antecedents and traditions, religion, and the varying necessity for militarism...