Word: mere
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...house is built in the belief that here also will dwell this spirit of democracy side by side with the spirit of true comradeship, friendship; but today this is a mere shell, a body into which you, Harvard students, and you alone can breathe life and then by a constant and generous use of it educate yourselves and each other...
...Paul, "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before, I press forward to the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." St. Paul bids men forget and cast away old sins, and, not content with mere resistance of temptation, press forward from height to height to the goal of ultimate perfection...
...regard to the Junior Baseball Team, I should like to state that you must have been misinformed of the true facts to put the matter in such a disagreeable light, or else have willfully cast aspersions on the entirely honorable position taken by the Junior Baseball Team. The mere technicality in the Athletic Rules which barred the candidates referred to from playing has in this case been regretted by the authorities at the Office who were entirely willing to have him play. The captain of the University team also wished him to play and the Senior team, whom it directly...
Yesterday afternoon, with the greatest ease in the world, the CRIMSON baseball nine defeated the Lampoon in a so-called contest, which was replete with brilliant and original plays. The score was 28 to 7, but mere figures can hardly show the superiority of the Harvard men over their opponents...
...American School has been founded to teach men interested in Semitic studies the history, geography, language and archaeology of Palestine, and to carry out systematic excavations. Excavations, as distinguished from mere digging for relics, are exceedingly careful and thorough, and are correspondingly expensive; this expense is augmented by the hurry in the work necessitated by the brief permits granted by the Turkish authorities. The men interested in the Palestine School hope to raise an endowment fund which will yield an annual income of $10,000, and thus make effective work by the school possible...