Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moreover, the fact that a man has had the initiative and ambition to take and pass these tests raises a presumption that he really wants to go to Harvard and that he has the stamina to orient himself in the vigorous atmosphere of a large man's college. And mere numbers should never be a chief end in higher education...
...arrangement of our College day has not kept pace with the growing interest in "athletics for all." As matters now stand, men frequently cut their "two-thirty" classes; some for University athletics, and a larger number for mere exercise. The "two-thirty" is unfortunately prominent in the list of popular antipathies of college...
...CRIMSON, however, conclusively proved by an unsigned contract for a Yard room that this was not the case, and that it didn't matter anyway. Not wanting to lose the game on account of a mere technicality, the CRIMSON refused to consider the protest...
...other, but each may contribute to the creation of another opportunity for Harvard to open itself to the outside world. As it is, such opportunities are only too rare, and come late in college life. If it were not for the singing, there would be small excuse for a mere "blow out"; on the other hand, the incidental pleasures only serve as further stimulus for the choral work...
...Faculty's additional rulings concerning the oral examinations work out the practical details of the new system. Most of them as the one limiting the length of the written test to one hour, are mere administrative regulations of no great significance. That a student should be allowed only one trial at the written examination seems a reasonable concession. For anyone who fails in this test after a minimum of two attempts at the oral quiz plus half a year of the tutorial course hardly deserves to be petted further...