Word: mere
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book placed at Bartlett's for signatures for the crew dinner remains pretty nearly in its original state. It is still much more a blank book than an autograph album. Only a mere handful of men have taken the trouble to sign their names. This indifference on the part of the college is wholly indefensible. The university crew of last year did its work in the face of greater odds than any Harvard crew has ever confronted. Its victory was hard earned and the more glorious on that account. We all felt the importance of the triumph when parading...
...teaching. The prospective professional men will find a continued mental activity in their professional schools, the business men in their counting-houses, and the teachers in their school rooms. But they are not all the men that a college graduates. Where are those who intend being higher than mere teachers, who aim at professorships? And where are those who look to neither law, nor medicine, nor ministry, nor business, nor instruction? For them the postgraduate course is of inestimable value...
...postgraduate course broadens very effectually a man's views and inculcates in him an aptitude for study and learning, of which his four years at college had given him only an inkling. No one who would be a wise man and a knowing one, will be satisfied with this mere inkling. He will strive rather to get the benefit of the two great lessons which he had learned in his college course by taking a post-graduate course. He will see the value of post-graduate study and will apply himself...
...base on a passed ball, another error by Flagg and hits by Henshaw and Foster. In the eighth inning, hits by Wiestling, Smith and Phillips, aided by a passed ball, netted two runs. The Rollstones were utterly unable to hit Smith; of the four hits credited them, two were mere scratch hits. Errors by Edgerly and Wiestling gave them their two runs, one in the sixth and one in the eighth inning...
...what will be the effect on the intellectual life and growth of the student who makes such choices. But, where an institution is situated, as Brown University is, in the midst of a mechanical, manufacturing and commercial community, where there are scores of young men to whom a mere literary training is a matter of secondary consideration, it must make provision for the education of such men. What they want is instruction in science, and to be taught how to make the most of the numerous applications of science to industrial pursuits. 'If the colleges are to educate these...