Word: mere
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...private clubs already existing, only more open and non-exclusive. But it was soon discovered that this was not its function; its membership was not sufficiently cohesive the common bond was not strong enough for its size and heterogeneousness. However, we were not satisfied to make the Union a mere meeting place for mass meetings, class smokers, debating clubs, committees and various other bodies. We wished to make it the great "hearth-stone of Harvard," a great centralizing force which should form all the varied activities and interests of our college world...
...matters should be left to the undergraduates themselves. The captain of a team hands in the name of a man he has nominated for manager. The appointment is then approved by the Graduate Treasurer and by the Committee; but this ratification is in most cases a formality, and a mere safeguard against any manifestly improper choice. The Committee does not concern itself with the question of how the captain arrived at his selection, whether by competition or promotion or because he preferred a certain candidate. It has not felt that such things lay within its province. In the same...
There are two ways of looking at the recent Med. Fac. incident. We may consider it as a mere prank and totally different from real house-breaking and theft. If so, we should give the incident no further attention. Or we may consider it as something totally unworthy of a member of our community, as an affront to some of the best phases of the life of that community, and as an insult to the memory of one of our truest graduates. If so, we should uproot the evil, showing no mercy...
Dean Hurlbut's agreement is a half-hearted compromise and a bare-faced confession of weakness. It is an agreement through which a mere child could drive a coach and four. It temporizes...
...mining engineer is that of being able to utilize the experience of older men. He must, furthermore, be his own doctor, and have, as every man of education should have, the quality of philosophy, which will enable him to possess some high purpose in life other than the mere attainment of fame or money...