Word: merely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecture in History 1 yesterday Professor Channing announced that a new course in History would be given next year by Professor Emerton. This course, which will probably take the title of History 3, is designed to be taken along with History 1. History 1 is a mere outline, which it is proposed to fill in with History 3. Professor Channing's course deals with the narrative history of the Middle Ages, while Professor Emerton's new course, while covering less ground, will go more into details, especially as regards the church, the manners and customs of the people...
Cook has been suffering from a severe cold, but will probably be well enough to cover third base again today. Bates will pitch and Cobb will back him up. In the last game with Morrill's nine the visiting team made only two hits off Bates' delivery, one a mere scratch, and the other made by the last man in the last inning. Morrill's men will try to revenge themselves on our pitcher today, and a hard and interesting battle may be expected...
...been influenced at all by the French, we might therefore suppose the drama to be an important point of contact. The answer is both yes and no. The number of French plays reproduced in England and America has indeed been prodigious, but so boldly have we copied that a mere translation or a slight recasting of the plays has been thought sufficient. The result has been plagiarism, not a gradual and subtle improvement...
...second gift is the system of education for the purpose of acquiring not mere knowledge, but the power to use our faculties to the utmost. It is in just this point that a college education is apt to be wanting, and it is for just this point that Harvard has made a stand. At Harvard first of all colleges was abandoned the time-honored custom of requiring certain passages from the classics for admission. Now the stress is laid mostly on the ability to translate at sight. This was a substitution of a test of power for a test...
After recounting the glories of a life of a great apostle as compared with that of a mere worldly man, the discourse was concluded with an appeal to men and women to improve their time and energies. They were asked to strive after the higher aims of life and to spend their few years in this world in something improving and elevating...