Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more per thousand of population who are policemen, sheriffs, jailers, etc. Every time the government exercises its functions, it uses, actually or potentially, the total brute force of the people. It is only the above mentioned standing army of 400,000 "that prevents the constitution and laws from being 'mere scraps of paper...
...study is doubtless enormous. The average undergraduate takes his work as doses of bitter medicine to be swallowed indiscriminately at more or less frequent intervals. Given a book, he dully reads the sentences, exercising on selection, but expecting that in some mysterious way he will absorb knowledge by the mere conning of the words. At a lecture he does not know how to condense points made into intelligible, concise statements suitable for notes. If the lecturer is not one who carefully labels all his topics and introduces them with "first, secondly, thirdly, etc.", the student is often at a complete...
Dean Briggs' annual report on athletics is something more than a mere report. It is always constructive, picking out evils and suggesting ways to eradicate them; its arguments are always for higher ideals, and cleaner spirit...
...over a million, the United States has no reserves whatever. The present task of Lord Kitchener bespeaks the effect of Great Britain's policy. There is a general confidence in our volunteer system. Experience has shown that many hundreds of thousands would readily respond to a call, and this mere statement of the numbers available is apt to produce a false feeling of security. General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, has declared that 300,000 men would be necessary at the outset of an attack on this country; the total available mobile force is at present less than...
...Moreover, this fact necessarily makes for a different mental attitude on the part of the undergraduates. Their competition is far less strenuous. I do not mean that the play is less vigorous. But it tends to make the mere winning or losing of less relative importance. It is as though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only...