Word: merely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ROSS '96, 6 College House.THE production of "Mignon", Ambroise Thomas' charming Grand Opera, on Monday evening at the Castle Square Theatre was a most interesting occasion in every way. Thomas' work has been done all too seldom in the past by operatic companies and the mere fact of its being underlined by Mr. Rose produced a large amount of interest before the curtain rose. The usual first night audience greeted the company that has made such a pronounced success in Boston. The entire auditorium as well as the boxes was filled with a critical and appreciative throng that has come...
...writer of this article seems to think that there are no high honors in the University open to the rich student. He appears to think that no prize that does not actually bear the name of scholarship is worth the scholar's winning. This is a mere confusion of terms. There are high honors in every department of the University that the rich scholar may win, and every one understands that the prizes are the reward for excellent scholarship, call them by what names you will...
...Lowering A. B. degree to fit three years requirement is injurious.- (a) To good scholarship.- (1) Invites sacrifice of thoroughness to mere passing of courses: Min. Rep., p. 18.- (b) To smaller colleges: Pres't Capen in report of Tufts College, 1889-90.- (1) They educate more than half of those receiving collegiate education.- (2) Lack of endowment would not enable them to meet the new competition.- (3) Instead of being feeders to the University they would be extinguished.- (c) To Harvard.- (1) It sacrifices the net gain since 1860-the senior year: Min. Rep., p. 15.- (d) To cause...
...once an effect and a cause. Looking to the past and to the future, character moulds itself partly into conservatism and partly into progress. As Emerson says, each of the two makes a good half but a poor whole. On the one hand excessive conservatism is a mere negation; on the other, excessive radicalism recklessly destroys the virtue of healthly discipline and blots out the good of the past with its bad. The one maintains established evil; the other destroys established good...
...Mere Coincidence," H. W. Foote...