Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University is to be congratulated on this result. Many of the bonds bought by students have not been a mere changing of investment or disposal of superfluous cash, but a definite sacrifice of present or future savings, and as such are doubly valuable. There are still many who have not bought, however, who are able to do so, and they must continue the work that has been so well begun. In the second Loan campaign the University's final total was over $35,000 this time we have been able to exceed this record. The last few days will...
Delegates from all the important colleges of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island will attend the conference which is meeting this year with the Eagles Mere Conference which includes in its membership students from universities in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia...
...within the power of every man to help his country. Mere declarations of loyalty accomplish nothing; the body and soul must be enlisted to the cause. The time for contentment with "doing your bit" is over. The nation now demands your all. Where formerly some one activity, some little help was regarded enough, today we can be content with nothing less than the utmost from everyone. As a worthy Canadian has pointed out, the term "slacker" has taken on a new meaning. The slacker among us now is the man who, in the slightest way, withholds any bit of energy...
...agree with Mr. Joslyn that the transfusion of the mere form and technique of knowledge cannot accomplish the desired result. It is the substance that we must look at; and the true substance is the basic or molding idea...
...greatness, in so far as we may be satisfied with the result)? In the philosophy of life presented, I maintain that the basing of ideals, in history, economics, science, literature and personal attitude upon individual spirituality, is doubly vicious; because, at its utmost flowering, it manifests itself in mere personal amenities...