Word: mere
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...younger generation by the formation of the Minnesota Club. At the present time there are only a few men here from that state, and it is always pleasant for students coming from the same section of country to be on more intimate terms with each other than a mere nodding acquaintance. The twin cities of Minnesota, St. Paul and Minneapolis, have grown enormously during the past few years and the young men are looking to the east where universities offer more advantages for pursuing different branches of study than the few colleges near their own homes. Aside from the pleasure...
...indeed who do not, every day, wish for help that their lives may be more successful, and who do not know that they need more point than they have to make their lives succeed. Few men, indeed, who do not in every day turn aside from mere grinding or mere play to ask what life is for, and how it can be made better. Let more men determine to meet here when the bell rings for chapel, that together they may meditate and resolve and together they may ask the God of all strength to help them through...
...they succeed in gaining possession of the fence, having it handed over to them during their short stay in New Haven by the upper-classmen, as was the case with the delegation which accompanied the Eighty-nine team two years ago. The mystic spell which lies in the mere name of Yale and which has on many an occasion worked more destruction to Harvard freshman teams than the good playing of their opponent has once been broken, and that Ninety-one may do likewise is our last and sincerest hope...
...scheme will promote the cause of general athletics and materially lessen the evils which they imagine arise from intercollegiate contests, we venture to say they will find they are mistaken. It they wish to reduce Harvard University to the level of a boarding school and treat the students as mere striplings, well and good; but we are inclined to think the boarding school would scarcely be as well attended as the liberal university. To be consistent, they should return to the old system of locking the doors of the dormitories at ten o'clock every night, and resuscitate the other...
...other nines to get together as quickly as possible for practice, if they wish to outdo Eighty-eight in the contest for the class championship. The freshmen especially are advised to work hard and faithfully, for they have to meet the Yale freshmen in a contest which is not mere play by any means. If they wish even to approach the record made by Eighty-nine two years ago, they will need to put forth the strongest efforts. They must remember that they are about to engage in a contest for the athletic honor of their university as well...