Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should like to see the whole militia system meet a similar fate but we should regard it as little short of a catastrophe if the spirit already manifested and the work already actually accomplished in the cause of preparedness at Yale were to go for nothing more than a mere ephemeral outburst of one summer's duration. The best way military training can be continued on a permanent footing at Yale is of course by the organization of a Yale unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, which the faculty will, we hope, in co-operation with the War Department...
...educational, more than half of its 500 students being young ladies. When every member of a recent graduating class was engaged to marry before commencement day. Dr. Mason, the president, began to understand why they were calling the institution "Cupid College" in that part of Kansas. It was no mere coincidence that the students had named the college annual "The orange Blossom." Then came a little informal party at which seven couples, all in the lower classes simultaneously made known their engagements...
...feeling and overwrought nerves--a sort of bursting charge that needed only a slight detonation to set it off. The situation is very much as though two men should come to harsh blows because one had accidentally broken the point of the other's pencil. In both cases a mere trifle would have resulted in important developments; the immediate cause could not possibly justify or explain the resultant action...
...rarely used to qualify the accuracy of a person's memory per se. We are wont to esteem highly and without discrimination those whose powers of recollection are well nigh faultless, and yet of what merit is the mind that can only imitate and plagiarize? To store up mere facts and uncorrelated details is worse than useless. The natural limits of mental capacity are soon over-run, and there is no room to cultivate original thought and imagination. A machine's efficiency is determined by the ratio of the energy applied to the power ultimately delivered...
...gifts. No human interest like Christmas! Once it did not exist at all in New England! It was necessary to create it. It was created, and it filled the bill. It came in response to a demand of the human heart. There are those who think that a mere universal exchange of gifts most of which nobody wants, is a foolish institution; but the fact remains that our people once did not have it, and deliberately introduced it in its plentitude. They find it somehow well worth while, and they will cling to it. The ordinary observance of Christmas...