Word: mere
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Literally hundreds of thousands of lives have been annihilated by the force of the eruptions and the fires and the sea. Lower Italy is panic stricken; mere words cannot describe the awful state into which the country has been plunged. Heroic efforts to relieve the distress are being made by scores of men and women in the vicinity whose lives were spared, but more money and more provisions are needed. It is right that this community give of its abundance at this time and contribute liberally to this, the noblest of causes--the relief of human grief and suffering...
...ghosts like that of Scrooge, although it believes that it could find a good many among its readers. It is not going to preach at all, and while it is going to wish its readers a merry Christmas and happy New Year, it knows of what small worth are mere wishes. It knows further how its readers and all other readers can have both a merry Christmas and a happy New Year,--and that is by listening to the Christmas Carol and so becoming excellent friends with Scrooge's ghost...
...which is not alone extraordinary but unique. There will be moments in the first act when they will gasp at the cold-blooded, sheer brutality of the dialogues and situations; there will be times when their interest will sag, owing to the young author's too great love of mere characteristic detail; then again, they will be thrilled by the strength of many of the scenes, for with all of his youthful crudities on his head, this lad has in his play some splendid passages of tense and virile drama-and above all the work of Mrs. Fiske...
...class meeting when the button question was discussed that the CRIMSON will not venture to bore the members of the class further with the advantageous and other aspects of the scheme. It brings to mind, however, another point which bears more vitally on the class than the mere buttons. In view of the occasional assertion that the class of 1909 has for various reasons never been as enthusiastic as a whole in class affairs as it should have been, it might be well for Seniors to wake up to this fact in these last months and leave behind them...
With just what motives a man should make his selection in these elections is still a disputed point. Mere friendship for the candidate should not be enough in itself. The CRIMSON believes that the committees should be a happy mixture of capable and hard-working men with men whose achievements along other lines are worthy of recognition. It is impossible to ignore the athlete but it is impractical to crowd out a man who will be serviceable to the class merely because he has not contributed to victories on the gridiron or on the river. A fusion...