Word: mere
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is undoubtedly something repugnant in a blue book, the mere sight of one is apt to excite our animosities; they have an effect upon us something akin to that produced by a Yale-Harvard foot ball match-they dampen our ardor. However, like many another thing here at Harvard, they are a necessity, and we have no choice but to support the book stores at this period of the year by a liberal patronage in blue books. Someone is made happy, at any rate. Let us not be so selfish as to want to take away this pleasure...
...powerful eyes, and the great men of the city, entered the building. The man with the powerful eyes led the way, but on entering a certain room he drew back and said, "Gentlemen, I have found darkness at last, I cannot help you, but give me but a mere candle, and I will disclose to you all the mysteries of this truly dark place." "Alas! We cannot afford it," cried the great men of the city, and for all I know the mysteries of that building are unsolved today...
...advantage of us, and it is an advantage of no mean importance. Many a parent has been induced to sent his boys to colleges which in every other respect are inferior to ours, because he feels the personal influence of teachers, is of far more importance than what of mere knowledge he could gain in larger universities. Can we compare the benefit which ten boys at Rugby derived from their books, with the incalculable good which resulted from contact with their noble head master, Dr. Arnold...
...Yale or any other college, if any doubt was felt in regard to the pecuniary success of a foot ball or base ball game which had been regularly arranged, to simply notify the captain of the visiting team that the game would be given up. In fact the mere notification of postponement is not always considered necessary, never, we believe, by the Yale freshman. So at last the prolific excuse-making Yale freshmen have found an excuse which the whole world will be only too ready to acknowledge perfectly just and fair. And yet we cannot but wonder...
...good friends in danger of substituting for manly indifference to mere bodily ills, and an indomitable courage against all odds, a cowardly dread of all hurts? Do we not see that that is the case in the growing popularity of the safe but effeminate lawn tennis, and the substitution of artificial gymnastics for the healthier field sports of our transatlantic ancestors? The long line of puny, pale-faced, pimply youth to be seen to day in our midst must be protected; they must be put back in the nursery where big boys cannot bruise their sickly frames. How refreshing...