Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sympathy with their purpose John Harvard drew his memorable will. Natural science was little known and less regarded; business was so simple as to require no special training; medicine was hardly on its way to becoming a science; law was meanly esteemed, as Lechford found, for the colony meant to the governed by the laws of God as given in the Bible and interpreted by the ministers. The ministry was the only profession for which academic preparation was provided. Harvard College, then, began as a School of Theology. Its aim was to educate learned ministers for the churches. Its course...
...blindness which occasions such delay is appalling and yet is well-known. The last days of any Congress are a heetic political scramble in which proportion and discretion are usually lost sight of. Indifference to vital interests has meant the indefinite postponement of too many bills. In the present case, however, there are not only dollars, but lives at stake. It seems incredible that Congress, even though it be nearing its last meeting, should overlook this fact...
...sorry if I led anybody to infer that I meant that college magazines should lower their literary standards. But it is not a mistake to imply that literary merit and interest to the reader are incompatible? What I was trying to bring out was the point that an article need not be upon what is sometimes considered a "literary" subject in order to have merit. We who live in academic surroundings are perhaps too prone to think that if we write about Shelley we are producing literature, whereas if we write about football or the tutorial system, we are necessarily...
...Christmas vacation meant little to the University. It was a period, a brief one, during which business was disrupted, and everything that represents Harvard, with the single exception of the Glee Club, ceased to exist; in fact there was no Harvard for ten days. Since there is o gain in this the vacation is looked upon simply as a necessary evil...
...revive the Plattsburg idea in New England at least, if not in all the nine army corps areas, subject, of course, to the approval of the War Department; and, because of a consequent addition to the army budget the approval of Congress also. For dozens of city workers, Plattsburg meant a healthy, out-door vacation among men with whom they had much in common. If the expense is not outrageously great there is no reason why Congress should withhold its permission to continue the arrangement...