Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...investigation of our national defence and a comprehensive plan for the future should be an obligatory matter when Congress meets, for the navy belongs to the people of the country, and they have a right to know its condition and how it is being managed. The mere appropriation of a vast sum of money will not cause the necessary reorganization in order that actual conditions may be improved; in order that we may have a needed change in the way of military reform, which should be forced upon Congress by a widespread sentiment. This investigation and knowledge has been denied...
...your editorial comment this morning on a communication which challenges the motives of "preparedness," you say that it is "inconceivable how anyone can charge that the possibility of an invasion of the United States is a mere figment of the imagination...
...inconceivable, at this time, with all Europe locked in a death struggle, how any one can charge--as a pacifist does in another column--that the possibility of an invasion of the United States is a mere figment of the imagination. According to expert opinion, the present conflict will be over in two years and possibly sooner. Then either the Allies will triumph and the German menace will be permanently overwhelmed, or Germany will triumph and her menace will be a menace thrice increased. In the latter case, the utterances of German civil and military writers, as as well...
...student loafer,--and who is not at least partially one?--would do well just at this time to read William James's essay on "Habit." Man soon becomes a mere walking bundle of habits, he observes; the character of the habits determines the character of the man. And a habit, acquired in the next few days of applying one's self to study at regular intervals for six hours each day will do wonders in removing that probation, or bringing up those grades which must be brought...
...letters in the University press are but instances. When, however, President Fitch, one of the spiritual leaders of the Harvard men, publishes in the Bulletin a letter, vehemently attacking the ideal of "peace as an end in itself" as "A dangerous and essentially degenerative doctrine," it becomes right that mere students, otherwise undesirous of publicity, should speak their minds...