Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mind subject to instincts and having natural ideas. It is accordingly a mistake to associate photography with creative art or try to make it imitate the processes of creative art. Vague, deceptive or idealized memory or history is bad. These pleasing changes, being mechanically caused, are mere illusions, and the pleasure we can take in them is shallow. Photographs should aim at being true, but there is no limit to the beauty and interest which photographs may have, in the same way in which real people and things may have beauty...
Until 1870 the boat houses used were mere sheds, of private ownership. The sheds were unsafe and unsubstantial, since the ice was apt to carry them away in winter, making them dangerous to keep boats in. It was decided that some improvement was necessary and in 1869 the plans for the present boat house were drawn up. The plans called for $7000, about $4000 of which was raised by subscriptions, baseball games, and amateur theatricals. It was completed in 1869. After the house was finished the University Boat Club, which built it, found it impossible to raise the remainder...
Harvard defeated Carlisle on Saturday 17 points to 5. The score, however, gives no indication of the closeness of the game nor the relative strength of the two teams as first constituted. Carlisle, going into the game with the reputation of playing straight football and relying on mere strength to win, began at the start a series of trick plays and unusual formations that entirely upset Harvard's defense. These plays resulted in a touchdown for Carlisle in less than five minutes. Then Harvard by a temporary rally took the ball to Carlisle's thirty-five yard line, where Daly...
...Everett's death has left a gap that will be hard to fill. No mere mention of his attainments as a theologian, or as a man of letters can pay the needed tribute to the man. His personality will always be reflected in the work of the many young men who studied under him and who learned from him much more than could be taught by precept, thesis, or text-book...
...flower may possibly be a mere combination of grass, a whiff of vapor; but it is not also far more? What is to be said of its beauty, of the mystery surrounding its growth? The cross itself is but a couple of beams; but does this tell of it as a refuge for the sinner, as a triumphant emblem of faith? Surely this faith is the real thing, worth having, not the power to analyze that of others. Science has its place, but it has also its limitations. For one thing, the spiritual life cannot be weighed or measured...