Word: meant
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THOSE who remember our temperate remarks about Western College journalism will be surprised to learn that the Chronicle (published at the University of Michigan) is aggrieved. Not only does it call the Magenta little, but overwhelms us by saying that we are cross, then calls us "coxcombs whom nature meant but fools." We regret that we are so small, and must acknowledge that if we were cross, we ought to be whipped; but at the same time, in order not to have those dreadful epithets "little" and "cross" applied to us by a paper no larger than...
...behalf of many who enjoy the singing of the various societies in the Yard, we ask those noisy gentlemen who testify their approbation by shouts and cat-calls, to give up the habit. It is, no doubt, conducive to harmony and strict time to be interrupted by a well-meant but misplaced war-whoop; but the members of the Parietal Committee prefer to take their music straight. In short, the singing in the Yard must stop, unless the window-critics can refrain from their customary vociferous applause. The habit is boyish enough, at best, and can be relinquished without much...
...Chelsea Public thinks the IT H guilty of unpardonable impudence in not leaving the modern Pompeii, cap in hand, with obsequious thanks for the well-meant castigation inflicted upon it by the Public. It particularly resents a recent article in the Advocate which dared to question the Public's critical taste, and is somehow reminded of the story of "Elijah" and the Bears. In the Bible, as translated for Chelsea, the name of the bear-compeller may be that mentioned in the Public, but King James's version (used in all English-speaking countries) gives ELISHA as the prophet...
...blandly would he sometimes come into my room, take off his rubbers and overcoat, and pleasantly inform me that he had no more recitations for that day! I knew what this meant, - a straight loaf till tea, and a steady drain on my cherished tobacco. He made fair promises of buying the next, but the next for him never came...
Much is said of the evils of cramming, by which is usually meant the filling of the mind with a multitude of facts a day or so before examination. But cramming applies also to the process of learning perfectly each part of a subject as it is presented in the daily lessons. There are very few really hard students, or else this method of cramming would be decried as much as the other. For many ideas are forced upon the memory without being understood, and whenever this is done evil surely results. My experience, which I think is not peculiar...