Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bring a new point of view which stimulates her own. Perhaps to an even greater degree, the West and South need Harvard. To encourage this intercourse, no new machinery is necessary. All that is needed is energy on the part of the Harvard Clubs. These clubs should not be mere self-sustaining friendship circles. They should be advance agents for a house that has the finest line of goods to be offered in this country. When this is realized, the University will have taken the first great step toward fulfilling the national need of college education...
...record. Further statistics have been complied by the CRIMSON, which show that the men from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton served the nation equally well during the emergency, no one institution distinguishing itself above the others for its measure of sacrifice. It is evident that it is not the mere superiority in numbers of men in the service which furnishes a basis for a correct estimate of a college's patriotism, but the proportional sacrifices of the different institutions...
Tomorrow the entire nation will pay reverence to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. The universality of the tribute exemplifies better than words the great recognition and esteem which America accorded to him during his life time. It is a mere question of months until a permanent memorial will be erected to commemorate his great service to the nation; but the consecration to his memory tomorrow shows that his name is "written upon the hearts of men" where it will remain imperishable...
...labors repeats to us again that with all our boasting of learning we are but playing with the ABC's of knowledge. Here was the man who established the first working laboratory in physics in the United States. It was necessary for him to spend many years in the mere measurement of satellites and stars. When we remember that astronomy and physics are the oldest branches of science known to civilization, we catch a glimpse of the vast fields for exploration before us. Professor Pickering with a few other Harvard men of his generation whom we have come to mourn...
...rare for a research worker of the first rank to be also a real teacher of his subject. It is even rarer for such a man to prove that he is not a mere cultured ornament of a practical world but a strong support in time of need. Professor Sabine was all three. Science remembers him for his studies in acoustics. The men of the University hold him dear for those hours in Jefferson when notes and books were forgotten as "sound ghosts" and electric discharges were made real by a man who had explored all their wonders...