Word: meres
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wholesale way. There are three great tragic armies of working girls; those who, because of insufficient wage and excessive work, fall early victims to tuberculosis; those who, due to the strain of long hours, are succumbing to nervous prostration; and those who, because of worrying on the problem of mere existence, yield to melancholia...
...these courses it is customary to devote half of one hour each week to a short paper on the assignment of reading and to spend the remainder of the time in discussion. Such discussion, if properly conducted, might well be profitable, but unfortunately it is often absolutely footless--a mere matter of form, and time thrown away. Obviously enough one question to be answered in twenty minutes can not always be a fair test of a hundred or more pages of scattered reading. Would it not be better, since the outlay for competent assistants is necessarily limited, either to have...
...American soil. It pointed also to the wide vision of real culture and to experience with men and books, thus showing itself to be cosmopolitan or universal, rather than racial. Certainly old and young, rich and poor, foreigner and native, appreciated its great charm and penetration. Sometimes a mere trifle would call out one of these rich, explosive extravaganzas of speech. I remember listening one day with trepidation when Mr. James, Sr., gathered his face into a half-humorous, half-thundery expression and then rolled out a series of denunciations on the people who would use the word 'quite...
...crux of the whole matter lies in the powers of the new Council. These are not specific, definite, or real. We realize that the mere ratification of a new Council with plenary powers would not actually put it in possession of these powers. For, with one or two exceptions, the students have not the authority to grant such powers. These must be obtained from the Faculty. Our point is that unless the Faculty can be persuaded to grant real authority to the new Council, we had better have no such body at all. For another merely advisory Council must result...
This year Memorial Hall has been the scene of continued disturbances. The mere presence of visitors in the gallery has been sufficient to incite, not only the sharp clinking of glasses, but the throwing of food as well. Such demonstrations come almost exclusively from Freshmen and those unacquainted with the traditions of Memorial Hall. Outsiders, unacquainted with Harvard undergraduates except by a visit to Memorial during meal hours, must, indeed, carry away with them a most flattering opinion of Harvard manners...