Word: meant
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...very pedantic, is not, to be sure, so dashing and cultivated a character as his contemporaries at Harvard and Yale, but he certainly can teach them one lesson at least, - that of earnestness. I would not, for the world, be understood to advocate what is sometimes meant by "energy" or "enterprise," that noisy spirit of "go-ahead-a-tiveness" which calls so loudly for the abolition of everything old under the head of "fogyism," and for the encouragement of everything new, under the head of "progression," - a progression which consists rather in tearing down everything behind you, than in building...
...work, as a whole, is meant to show no affectation of fine writing, nor does it lay claim to literary excellence. The Advocate has this ground by right of possession; we do not attempt to rival it in jeux d'esprit, or in cunningness of speculation, or otherwise poach upon its preserves. We shall be content with the humbler task of satisfying the curiosity of our readers about what is going on in Cambridge, and at other colleges, and of giving them an opportunity to express their ideas upon practical questions. It ought to be added perhaps, that, while...