Word: mere
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other end of the scale is treated in such a cursory review. One column instead of four would reduce the exaggerated proportions of this part of the table. The author claims that over two-thirds majority of each class spend from $810 to $1,410; but this evidently a mere guess based upon data altogether insufficient. Professor Palmer's much more trustworthy calculation places nearly one-half of each class below the limit of $800. Moreover the author does not treat consistently the material he has actually collected, for he states near the beginning of his article that...
...University of Pennsylvania a record of the ten strongest men is kept in the gymnasium. The ranking is based on general health as well as on mere strength...
...piece of good fortune which cannot be overestimated. But every one here is not placed in a position to be able to enjoy the pleasures of society. Why such unusual advantages should place athletics in a secondary position we fail to see. Men do not train for teams merely for the pleasure they get from it. The athletics of a college have ceased to be a mere pleasure: they have become hard, earnest work. Should the self-denial undergone by these men be set aside as of secondary importance? Who is to judge-a few individuals or the college...
...first one of the kind that has ever been produced. America has done more in the last fifty years to bring photography to perfection than any other country, although much has been accomplished by recent scientific investigation in England and France. The old spectra of stars were mere dots, but now Professor Pickering has been able to take photographic spectra of them as large as the old spectra...
...current of undergraduate interest in these moves. We will not dwell on the obvious need of these studies-the list of signatures will throw aside all doubt on that point; but we do hope something more salutary to the college at large will come from the petitions than their mere consignment to the waste-paper basket without a proper discussion. Any others who may wish to sign will find the books at Bartlett...