Word: merely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thoroughly good game. The Yale class nine is reported to be very strong, and there can be no doubt that the Harvard nine, at least in fielding, is above the average of class teams. The playing should be good even though judged by an absolute, and no mere relative, standard...
...with personal information for the class history. In spite of the long time which has passed since these forms were distributed by the present Secretary, but few of them have yet been returned to him. This is not as it should be. Where so slight an exertion as the mere filling out of a blank is requested, it should surely be willingly granted. The trifling inconvenience it might cause is utterly insignificant when compared with the annoyance which the Secretary must feel if many neglect...
...those from the nine will be practically insignificant. There can no longer be any excuse for withholding or delaying subscriptions. The freshman crew has too often been left till the last moment without money enough to take them to New London. They can not go on the strength of mere promises to pay; they must have cash to cover the cost of their trip...
...true that the fame of the debater, or of the literary or scientific man, is not as the fame of the football hero; yet while neither may have a place in the undergraduate's enthusiasms, each is awarded a share in his respect which is denied to the mere athlete. Football, baseball, any of the sports, is more exciting and attracts a more intense interest than can fairly be asked for intellectual work. No outsider can follow the processes which lead to literary or scientific success, or can feel with him who wins it all the eager joy of victory...
...University much welcomed rest and recreation. We believe that this self-imposed discipline which is so common as to seem at times almost commonplace, is one of the most useful and moral influences of the University life, and in its effects reaches far beyond the men immediately concerned. The mere winning or losing of a race may in itself be of little importance. The ennobling thing after all in athletics is the self-forgetful striving after an ideal and whether that ideal is the championship of class or college the striving is a good thing...