Word: merely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...whose characters are necessarily unformed. The boarding school too often developes not true manliness, but rather a heedless independence which is incompatible with it. To put a boy in the way of such development the neglect of higher, is a grave mistake. Self-reliance should not be born of mere freedom from restraint, but of a consciousness of power which can hardly accompany the school boy's immaturity...
...member of a team has more than a mere personal responsibility for whatever may keep him from actively sharing in the work of the team. He is unfair to his fellows if he hurts their chances by wilfully incapacitating himself; and to incur probation can hardly be anything but wilful. Through the team, too, the athlete is responsible to the college whose representative he is, and these claims of team and college should be binding even when the claims of common sense and morality above referred to, might be heedlessly set aside. In past years Harvard teams have been known...
...years has shown how true this is, and it has been very gratifying to notice the constantly improving relations between professors and students. The College Conferences would have contributed much to further advance in this direction. It would, however, be out of the question to start them now. The mere denial of the false statements made about them would not be sufficient to overcome the prejudice which those statements against them must arouse...
...Appleton Chapel, on the contrary, are there for a purpose of their own and not from any disagreeable necessity. They come because they wish to take part in the service, and accordingly do take part so earnestly that it becomes a real act of worship instead of a mere formality devoid of significance...
...Mere thoughtlessness or ignorance can not be the least justification for the men who continue to run on the sidewalks on North avenue. The captains of the various teams have taken action in the matter so far as the men who are training under them are concerned, so that the running of the teams no longer gives cause for complaint. Individuals who are members of no teams, however, still continue the practice which others with more wisdom have given up. Some time ago the deans of both the College and the Scientific School made a particular request that the rules...