Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Class discussion seems rather futile to me. When a man is alone with his tutor he expresses himself without restraint and the tutor gets a clear insight into each of his scholars. Your exams can be passed by cramming., A mere surface knowledge will not suffice to convince our tutors of our industry. We do not have to attend lecturers or take quizzes. Oxford leaves it up to the person to use his own initiative in educating himself. Harvard does not especially nurture the individual...
...which he plays a purely passive part. A German, for instance, is surprised to find that his American friend has passed up opportunities to speak German with acquaintances at home who are fluent in the language. The American attempts, on the other hand, to learn German or French through mere exposure to a series of courses in them. When at the end of several years he is still a wretched linguist, he blames the methods by which he has been taught...
...graduate students the mere contact with professors who are doing valuable research work may be sufficient stimulus, but an undergraduate feels the need of an interesting presentation from a man who is whole-heartedly devoted to the work of imparting to others the enthusiasm which he feels in his subject. Many of my professors have prefaced their courses with the remark: 'I consider the lectures of this course of little or no value,' and unfortunately the statement has too often proved true...
...direct and absolute commands issued recently by British Emperor George V was cabled to Santa Barbara, Calif., into the harbor of which steamed, last week, H. M. S. Durban, carrying Prince George, youngest son of Their Majesties, in his technical capacity of a mere Naval Lieutenant...
Though these developments convinced many persons of the immaculate innocence of Mother Concepcion, they comprised a mere incident in the broad and sweeping criminal investigation now being conducted by Mexico City's new Chief of Police, General Antonio Rios Zertuche. The General, an intimate and brother-in-arms of General Obregon is determined, perhaps too determined, to find out that the assassin, one José de Leon Toral, an insignificant Roman Catholic fanatic, was not the sole author of the crime as he still insists that...