Word: mere
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...acknowledgement of the debt of gratitude we owe those who worked so hard and trained so faithfully during the long months of winter, and in whom we felt so much pride in the spring. And let us express our appreciation of their efforts in some more palpable form than mere words...
Park Theatre. Maggie Mitchell. "Maggie tha Midget" is a trashy play with the flimsiest of flimsy plots; in fact, how such a mere thread of a story can be spread out over four acts is entirely incomprehensible. Miss Mitchell has not a pleasing delivery; she uses one style of voice for everything, defies her 'haughty rival' in the same tone that she uses to bid her lover good-bye, and bids her lover good-bye in the same tone in which she tells him of her love. Miss Mitchell seems to think that piquancy is given to her conversation...
...brilliant plays, and has the fastest runners, that is to win in the coming contest, but that eleven which employs every player to make each run, and where the ball is being continually passed from man to man. The science of the game is far more important now than mere strength. Let us remember this...
...censure as severely as we may the culpable failure of one of the most important elections yet given into the hands of the students. It is a disgrace that students who feel competent to discriminate in matters of religion are unable to act in a responsible matter in a mere case of gentlemanly conduct. It is a disgrace that Harvard students, when called upon to vote as a body upon a matter of moment to the whole university, not only fail to respond to the call, but even allow themselves to be betrayed into an action characterized only by boyish...
...most of us in college know, due to the industry of certain undergraduate reporters for the Boston dailies. We have often spoken of the untrustworthy accounts of college matters which come out in these papers, and have urged that more care be taken in the future; but mere remonstrance has no effect. Some of these reporters are not content with merely writing what is in execrable taste; newspaper exaggeration does not satisfy them; they not only send in vague rumors upon hearsay authority, and "write up" matters of which they know nothing; but in order to make something spicy...