Word: merely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forced to a cross-examination and disqualified (see CRIMSON of this date). He would have been sent after Wagenhurst. So the presence of these smaller colleges in the association proves worse than useless. It is useless, as the scores this year and the playing of substitutes against them indicates, Mere practice games-that is what they were. But their being in the association is worse than useless, it has been harmful. Their votes in Ames' favor lost you the Thanksgiving Day game, and now their votes will prevent this needed reform as to semi-professional graduate players and graduate students...
...desire for a "reform in athletics for reform's own sake." The precipitate action is, however, "a cause for grave regret," and has given rise to the pertinent questions which are now being asked by the public press. The Monthly believes that the withdrawal was not dictated by mere pique, and that two months hence the same action would have been taken, but regrets that "when it was possible to take this wise step with dignity and in a manner not to give offense, the college has chosen to appear like a pack of headstrong boys...
...monuments are not to be judged by the same standard as for instance, the Parthenon frieze. They are probably the work of mere craftsmen. Many, nevertheless, possess great beauty, though they vary much among themselves. It has been suggested that they were kept in stock, but there is no proof of this theory, and the fact that the figures are evidently intended to represent particular persons militates strongly against...
...this with any shadow of secrecy? If to obtain the desired dual league with Yale, why refuse to give the college time to consider it? " These questions are easily answered. It was thought that decisive action would prove that we were in earnest much more conclusively than a mere threat. There was no secrecy about the matter. Everything was done openly and avowedly. The matter of a dual league was inevitably bound up with the proposition to withdraw from the old one. For years it has been talked of and considered the final solution of all difficulties; so when plans...
...regard to his subject matter. Cicero says Socrates brought philosophy down from heaven to earth. Socrates did not agree with his predecessors who tried to solve the material universe; all this was folly and mere fancy to him. He believed that the natural sciences were reserved by the gods for themselves and that all attention should be placed on that which deals with conduct. He was not a systematic thinker like Plato and Spinoza. His great achievement was that he taught the importance of clearness in thinking on ethical questions which is called his inductive process of thinking...