Word: mere
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...returning to the custom of holding spring football practice, Captain Burr and Coach Haughton are giving the first possible instance of the initiative needed for the coming season. They have secured the services of several efficient graduate coaches, and intend to accomplish something more than mere drilling in fundamentals. We cannot help but admire the business-like way in which the season has been inaugurated, and we feel that this preliminary industry augurs well for the success of the team next fall...
...fresh, well-balanced work. "Admiral's Light" is no exception. It is a breath, all to short, of down-east air, tingling with the strong, salt flavor of sea-girt downs and long, pebbly beaches; a tantalizing glimpse of gray ocean and pine-clad islands. The story, as a mere story, amounts to little, but why should it? The book does not purport to be more than a few stray chapters from the lives of a few people, isolated almost absolutely as are the inhabitants of Eastern Maine. Their interests are circumscribed by the hills on one side...
...game of life. That is expecting you to be more than human. But I do ask you, after the heat of the game, that you draw breath and watch your fellows for a while. Sooner or later you will see some man to whom the idea of wealth as mere wealth does not appeal, whom the methods of amassing that wealth do not interest, and who will not accept money if you offer it to him at a certain price...
...least, to count Republican votes for Democratic nominees, unless a Democrat is given first or second place. To force a Republican to vote for two Democrats is something quite apart from actual politics; nor are Democrats supposed to vote for Republicans in an actual election. The mere fact that a great majority or Republicans put Bryan fourth argues very forcibly his strength. It is evidently to the advantage of the Republican nominee to have the weakest possible candidate to fight against. The vote Friday on third and fourth places, if it showed anything, showed that Johnson would be an easier...
...advanced by and through the CRIMSON. No university can hope to appeal purely by academic reputation to the preparatory schools that are ignorant of the real conditions of its undergraduate life. That, of course, must play a large part; but life at Harvard means more to us than the mere study, for which primarily we have come to Cambridge. It means four years of active competition with men of our own age and tastes; competition in any one of a hundred branches of endeavor; competition that is selfish in part, but in the end binds us the more closely...