Word: mere
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...should the fact be overlooked that there is more to be considered than the mere honor of an election. There is much painstaking work to be done in connection with most of the offices, work which requires different kinds and degrees of ability. These positions of importance must be competently filled as well as honorably and it is of great importance to the class that they be so filled...
Professor Winter suggested that the meetings be made of vital interest to more than mere members, that they be made to attract the public as well as members of the University. This might perhaps be accomplished by the program being varied as much as possible, by having not only travel talks, recitations, illustrated lectures, but music and occasional talks of a humorous nature. A. A. Ballantine '04 emphasized the value of public speaking, and brought out the advantage a trained man has over those untrained in this respect...
...conspicuous place. That the trophies have in all cases been claimed is scarcely to be questioned, but that they should lie about unseen and disregarded mars to no inconsiderable extent the success of winning teams. Traditions can be maintained only with much effort and vigilance; they can easily become mere breaths of the past and mean nothing to those of us who belong to the present generation. Nor are traditions always worthy of further perpetuation. But in matters which concern so deeply the life of the University the past should not be so utterly put away, and the most satisfactory...
...gave at the beginning of each academic year; and many knew, long after they left the University, that he was still their friend. For Professor' Wright had, in a measure rarely granted even to lovable men, the power of awakening affection. No one who met him in the mere casual relations of life could fail to be impressed with his sincerity; while to those who were privileged to know him intimately he endeared himself in countless ways. Of the affectionate regard in which his friends held him I do not trust myself to write. He loved his fellow...
...like many other of these same men, he became a Republican. There were two reasons for his becoming a Democrat: the political economy then taught in College favored free trade, and the Democratic platform was "mathematically correct." Later he realized that idealism enters politics as everything else, and that mere mathematical precision is not practical. Among other arguments for a protective tariff he argued that a country should be self-supporting...