Word: merely
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...might have regarded all this as a mere nightmare, had it not been for the terrible interpretation that followed...
...Crimson to be regarded as a protectionist sheet, - such matters are, of course, out of the range of a College journal, - but from a spirit of fairness and justice to all parties, and the desire that Harvard should not be regarded, as it is at present, as a mere training school for free trade...
...which there are no facilities for writing, and the ventilation is notoriously bad. So far as this is concerned, we entirely agree with the writer when he says that Harvard College was founded for men, and that students, accordingly, should not be put to inconvenience by outsiders. The mere question of convenience can easily be settled, it would seem, by transferring the course to Sever, or to some room where there are tables for the eight men who regularly elect the course, to write at. But regarding the tendency towards co-education, which the writer traces from allowing women...
...COME Muse, let's sing of mail-boxes." And why not of mail-boxes? Yet some may be inclined to advocate the claims of the lamp-posts as superior. They may assert that the box is but a mere dependent; for though we find many lamp-posts without mail-boxes, we rarely, if ever, come upon a mail-box not connected with a lamp-post. But, mind you, when I say mail-boxes I do not mean the dainty, fragile articles often so misnamed; but the big, honest, ugly iron boxes that are painted green, and shaped like knapsacks...
...much interest taken in the organization, and that there are a number of men in College who take lively interest in political matters. In the debates there is one danger that needs to be avoided, if possible : that is, the tendency to stray from the question under discussion to mere refutations of perhaps very insignificant points. It might be advisable, in order to keep the subject constantly in mind, to have it written plainly on the blackboard behind the chairman's desk. The subject for the next debate is one of much interest and importance. We regret the action...