Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history. One tribe, the Mochicas, may have developed a system of hieroglyphics similar to the Mayan, but like the Mayan it has never been deciphered. Having no records to go by, archeologists are necessarily vague in categorizing Andean art, but laymen may find a certain poetic fascination in the mere names of the main civilizations: Chavin, Cupisnique, Salinar, Cavernas, Quimbaya, Chanapata, Chiripa, Mochica, Tiahuanaco, Chimu, Chibcha, Inca...
...Eliot's influence was considerable in continuing the liberalized program of rapid advancement, so was President Lowell influential in bringing it to a halt. In his 1909 inaugural address from a stage on the west front of University Hall he attacked the assumption that college was a mere fill-in between high school and professional school, stating "the college ought to produce, not defective specialists, but men intellectually well rounded, of wide sympathies and unfettered judgement...
...period when the study of literature was in danger of becoming mere antiquarianism," professor of English Harry T. Levin '33 said last night, "he was one of those who did the most to humanize it. For those who followed his courses, or had the privilege of knowing him, the single word that comes to mind first is 'human' in all its best reverberations--humane, humanistic, humanitarian...
Regardless of the elephants, the distances and other hurdles, our correspondents continue to report their news each week to keep the editors informed. Sometimes they have a tendency toward the laconic answer if a story they are asked to check turns out to be mere rumor. There was the time, for example, when British-born David Cole, our part-time correspondent in Northern Rhodesia, received a query from New York and replied: "There, old chap. I think you're a bit up the pole. Absolutely no truth in your notion, and I've been having a hearty laugh...
...Certainly no one would be required to take the tests. The Committee on General Education could publish lists of requirements, stating exactly what material must be known to secure an exemption. Such lists would not encourage cramming, for the essay questions on the examinations could be framed so that mere factual knowledge would make little difference if whole areas and concepts were not understood...