Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...minds are normally active and penetrating are content to accept, and retain momentarily a mass of detailed facts. They forget that the dates and rules required in courses are only means intended to train their minds for future constructive work. A student should not regard his courses as a mere acquisition of facts, but as a development and broadening of his mind...
...arts," as explained in some of the prints, could easily have been by Mr. William Stevenson or any other contemporary writer of the time, provided of course that he had an exceptionally keen sense of the ridiculous. The comedy is intensely humorous, and while few would take up the mere loss of a needle as the basis for a five-act comedy, such a loss in 1575 was far from being a trifle. At the time the play was written a steel needle was treasured as few family possessions are today, and when Gammer Gurton lost hers--the only...
Important as "making money" may be to preserve solvency or even in common estimation to measure success, mere accumulation is not the paramount object in life of the broad-minded business man. The work itself, with its responsibilities and power, its service rendered, is in large degree its own reward. The auditor of a great railway system, with a fine and sincere enthusiasm, once told me that instead of drawing a salary for his services he really ought to pay for the privilege enjoyed, of seeing, as he put it, "all the business of the road come across his desk...
...this public stigma fastened upon the Philistine who has never studied Latin, or upon that more unfortunate person who failed to study it enough? The punishment meted out in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" has always seemed to us eminently fitting; yet we had never thought the mere non-Latinist deserved such a brand. But perhaps it is for the benefit of the public. Peter Barnum said the public liked to be fooled; and we certainly fool the public with our pompous scientific degree. Meanwhile, the initiated know that the yellow crow's-foot indicates "not knowledge of science, but ignorance...
...straw ballot for President today will be more than a mere interesting expression of student opinion; it may very possibly indicate the trend of general thought in regard to the campaign. In the straw vote of 1912, Wilson led, followed by Roosevelt and Taft in the order named. That the vote should come so close to reflecting the actual opinion of the nation is not strange in a body of students which is so geographically representative. The vote today will have two features of interest: first, the preference for the Republican nomination, and secondly, the strength of President Wilson...