Word: mere
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that "every undergraduate be required to report early every morning, with a moderate and fixed allowance for necessary absences," have they forgotten the evils which flourished under the system of compulsory prayers which set a premium on all sorts of false excuses for absence? Do they suppose that the mere establishment of such a rule will insure its faithful observance...
...generally understood by the repeal of the old regulation that no objection will be made to a contest with any team on the mere ground that it is professional, so that the nine is now practically free to play with professional teams...
...most importance to the college is the elaborate editorial filling several pages near the end of the number. Its aim is to stimulate men to become more than mere plodders or idlers along the intellectual highway; to show the vast superiority of those students who. putting aside the petty spirit which drives men to work for marks or examinations alone, adopt instead an ultimate idea of true and broad culture. An abuse too prevalent at Harvard-the nursing system of private tutors-is treated with the open and unqualified contempt it deserves. If the Monthly continues thus ably to discuss...
...judge for himself the merits of a representative Harvard organization, and to compare it with similar ones of past years. A quantity of new songs and new airs have been introduced into repertoire of the Glee Club, and its members have practiced them together faitbfully this fall. The mere fact that the Pierian Sodality, which will be unable to go on the Western tour, will join in the concert ought to act as an additional attraction, if, indeed, an additional one be needed to make the concert a complete success...
...many lists have been recently published of the "hundred best books." The lists are often entertaining, but not valuable. For no hundred best books can be picked out. Eight, or six, or four,- the books that every cultured man must know, are easily selected. They cannot be read for mere amusement; rather for delight, a delight that grows steadily with time and study. Beyond these very few, every man, according to his associations and individual taste, will fill out a different hundred. For instance,- Prof. Norton said,- a gentleman in England of the richest acquirements and the ripest and widest...