Word: mereness
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...this supposes that you realize the position; that you fill up the measure of the opportunities; that you keep in view at once the professional life, the citizen life and the life of intellectual tastes. The mere professional man, however prosperous, can not be a power in society, as the Arts' graduate may become. His leisure occupations are all of a lower stamp. He does not participate in the march of knowledge. He must be aware of his incompetence to judge for himself in the greater questions of our destiny; his part is to be a follower...
CHAS. P. CURTIS, JR.,Pres. H. U. B. C.We owe an apology to the president of the Boat Club for conveying the idea that his mere expression of opinion was an official statement...
...sometimes, I have been told by the envious, a very respectable proportion of the membership list, a portion sufficient in the steady march of time to satisfy the aspirations of all concerned. But, nevertheless, in spite of all these assertions, I now have to believe that Harvard men are mere novices in this branch of the great art of politics. I have seen the list of sophomore class officers in a neighboring college, and, for ingenuity and fertility of resource, it certainly surpasses anything attained with us. Here it is: President, vice-president, recording secretary, corresponding secretary, treasurer, marshal, orator...
...more than reciprocate the courtesy by inviting the governor over on commencement day. You know that the connection between the Commonwealth and the university has been dissolved, and the governor can now-a-days only go over on commencement as an act of courtesy. It is a mere matter of tradition now." Another politician said: "President Eliot respects the office which Gen. Butler holds, and it would have been unseemly in him not to have accepted the general's invitation to attend the inauguration." - [Boston Herald...
...foot-ball troubles are concerned we can only say that not only Harvard but Princeton disapproved of Yale's method of play. Still, neither Harvard nor Princeton ever accused Yale of being a mere training-school for "muckers." We only claim that Yale plays a game of foot-ball which we consider adapted only to "muckers" (if the Spirit wants to use this word), and in so far only as Yale supports this style is she "muckerish." Still, at Rugby, England, an equally rough game is in vogue, yet no one characterizes Rugby men as muckers. That this style...